Re: How to lock CVS for check-in

[Jake Colman]

>>>>> "GAW" == Greg A Woods <address@hidden> writes:

    GAW> [ On Thursday, October 11, 2001 at 08:24:11 (+0530), Shubhabrata
    GAW> Sengupta wrote: ]
    >> Subject: Re: How to lock CVS for check-in
    >>
    >> Wondering why this enhancement is needed in the commitinfo interface
    >> when you can always get the branch information out of the CVS/Entries
    >> file which is always available to the commitinfo script.

    GAW> I'm not sure the CVS/Entries file is always available, and in any
    GAW> case accessing it directly is a very very very bad hack.  Its
    GAW> contents should be private and for CVS internal use only.  The fact
    GAW> that some of its structure is documented in the manual is not
    GAW> permission to go mucking about in it unless you're cleaning up some
    GAW> form of corruption or another.


So what do _you_ recommend for implementing branch locking?

...Jake

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