Re: Information about multiple checkouts

[Jay Sachs]

"Roberts, Iwan(LIT)" wrote:
> 
> IMHO I believe that the main problem with CVS is that assuming we replace
> "checkout" with "cvs edit" in the statement below, user A marks a file for
> edit, user B also marks the file for edit, user A gets a notification that
> user B is about to edit the file, but user B is not informed that user A has
> previously marked the file for edit, therefore one party is informed, but
> not the other.  Is there a way for both parties to be notified ?


Sure. Put this in your CVSROOT/notify:

ALL mail %s $USER -s "CVS notification"

Then all parties get mail.

jay