AW: watchers in awry

[Schell Walter]

It only becomes read-only, if there was no local copy of the file before checkout. Try to release the file and checkout or update again.

Walter

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Von: Neil Blue [mailto:address@hidden
Gesendet: Montag, 2. Juli 2001 06:04
An: address@hidden
Betreff: watchers in awry

Hello,

I am just trying to learn to use 
CVS in a group. I am trying to get the watchers working. 

This is a short 
question, but I have included a clear run through (I hope) of what I 
did.

So far I have created a test module, and added a file to it called 
rane.txt. I have logged in as the user 'rane', added a watch to the file 
with:  

cvs watch on

and 

cvs watch add

I 
confirmed this with:

cvs watchers 

which produced:

[address@hidden tester]$ cvs 
watchers
rane.txt    rane    edit    unedit 
   commit

Next I checked out the same file as a differnt user 
'neil', and checked the watchers with:

cvs watchers 

which again 
produced:

[address@hidden tester]$ cvs watchers
rane.txt 
   rane    edit    unedit    
commit

however when listing the files with ll, I got:

[address@hidden tester]$ 
ll
total 8
drwxrwxrwx    2 neil     neil     
    4096 Jul  1 23:40 CVS/
-rw-rw-rw-    1 neil 
    neil           26 Jul  1 23:37 
rane.txt

where I was expecting the rane.txt file now to be checked out as 
read-only, according to the documentation:

'

10.6.3 How to edit a file which is being watched

Since a file which is being watched is checked out read-only, you cannot simply edit it. To make it read-write, and inform others that you are planning to edit it, use the cvs edit command.

'

Please could someone explain why 
the watched file is not read only.

Thank you
Neil 
Blue