Re: Reserved checkouts.

[Noel L Yap]

address@hidden on 2001.05.02 10:21:54
>What you want is some way of controlling who's working on the
>file at any given time, and the CVS way to do that is to set
>"cvs watch on" all files that you want to control, and ask
>the developers to use "cvs edit" to unlock them.  This isn't
>strict locking, but rather advisory.  Having worked with both,
>I can testify that strict locking doesn't stop people from
>working simultaneously on a file and blowing away other people's
>changes, and advisory locking seems to work as well as strict.

I think that advisory locking works better than strict locking since developers
are still working within the version control tool rather than circumventing it.

>(Noel Yap wrote some patches to put teeth into the watch/edit
>process, and these can be found at the RCVS project at Sourceforge,
>last I looked.  These patches were written against an earlier
>version of CVS, so use with caution.)

I've updated the patches against cvs-1.11, but they're not as well tested as the
ones on SourceForge (since I haven't been using CVS as of late).  These new
patches haven't been posted on SourceForge (yet) so I'll send them out to those
who ask.  Anyway, "use with caution" still applies.

Noel

PS
I'm still looking for volunteers to patch the docs and tests so that these
patches have a greater chance of making it into the "official" CVS release.

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