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Re: Disallow multiple checkouts


From: Noel Yap
Subject: Re: Disallow multiple checkouts
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 09:43:25 -0700 (PDT)

--- address@hidden wrote:
> By not using CVS.  The C in CVS stands for
> Concurrent, and disallowing
> multiple checkouts is almost exactly what CVS was
> not designed to do.
> 
> It is possible to use "cvs watch on" to force CVS to
> checkout and
> update files in read-only status, which will be
> changed to read-write
> status with "cvs edit", and "cvs editors" will show
> who is editing
> the file.  This is as close as CVS gets, and in my
> experience
> notification is just as good as hard locking.

One can get a little more control with the advisory
lock patches available at
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=471046&group_id=4680&atid=304680

This isn't exactly what the original poster had
requested, but, like you said, notifications are just
as good (in most situations).

Noel


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