Re: Question about LockDir

[Larry Jones]

Reinstein, Shlomo writes:
>
> But I have a problem with that: CVS versions 1.9 and older do not support
> the LockDir option (as written in the Cederqvist), and therefore if two
> different developers use different versions of CVS, e.g., one developer uses
> CVS 1.9, and the other uses CVS 1.11, then they can create write locks in
> two different locations, commit to the repository at the same time, and
> corrupt the repository.

Use client/server CVS instead of a network-mounted repository.  That
way, you only need to worry about the server version.

-Larry Jones

Hmm... That might not be politic. -- Calvin