Re: Obtaining the CVS repository code in read-only form.

[Todd Denniston]

Gaurav Chhabra wrote, On 08/19/2008 07:21 AM:
>  Hi,
>
>
>
> There are two developers A & B working on a java project. They are using
> only NetBeans IDE for accessing CVS repository. They can't access the CVS
> repository using command line. Developer A has been working on the project
> from start. Developer B is allocated to the same project later.
>
> I have two queries based on the scenario described above:
>
> Q. 1) I want that developer B should get a read-only copy of the source
> code. Can he get that without using the checkout option? I am asking this
> because checkout of a source code will automatically provide developer B
> with an option of checking in some file(s) after modification, which I don't
> want to happen. If developer B really wants to modify some file, he should
> explicitly 'checkout' only that particular file from the CVS repository.
> Also, I want that he should be able to get the central repository updates to
> local read-only files. Is this possible?
>
> Q. 2) If developer A has created two .html files and developer B wants to
> create .js files for the same then developer B should be able to get the
> read-only .html files of developer A so that he can create corresponding .js
> files. If later, developer A creates one more .html file and updates it in
> the central repository, then developer B should be able to get a read-only
> copy of the new file in his local work area. Is this possible?
>
>
> If I have to install some extra software on their (developer A & B) machines
> to achieve this, then kindly advise for that too.
>
>
>
>
> Regards,
> Gaurav

For the URLs below, please download 
http://ftp.gnu.org/non-gnu/cvs/source/stable/1.11.22/cederqvist-1.11.22.html.tar.bz2
to your home directory and put a copy of it in /tmp.
cd /tmp
tar -xjvf cederqvist-1.11.22.html.tar.bz2

You are looking for LockDir=directory
file:///tmp/cederqvist-1.11.22.html/cvs_18.html#IDX282

dev A needs read AND write access to all the DIRECTORIES of the repository.
dev B needs read access to all the DIRECTORIES of the repository.

dev A and dev B need read AND write access to the directory pointed to by 
LockDir.

with out write access to the directories of the repository, dev B can not 
commit.

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