Re: exclusive checkout

[Paul Gelderblom \(ptok\)]

> address@hidden wrote:
> >
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > Is there a way of enforcing exclusive checkout in CVS?
> >
>
> Todd Denniston <address@hidden> wrote:
> read the following message if you want more insight as to why, and if
> you are not afraid of patching your tools, there patches for you.
> http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg04330.html
>
A bit of practical experience:
I sucessfully used Noel Yaps edit -c patch (see the message mentioned by
Todd and also http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-cvs/2002-05/msg00290.html
on where to find a recent version) on a repository I recently set up.
We applied the patch without a problem to cvs-1.11.5. You need
the patch for both server and clients, but as far as I know, cvsnt (at
least the version shipped with WinCvs1.3 B) has it applied already.

On the server, we have a commitinfo script which does a "cvs watch on"
(or actually, it directly changes the CVS/fileattr file directly with the
same effect)
 for added files that match certain extensions. This means that we do not
enforce locking on all files, but only on a small subset (a few % of the
files)
 we think it is needed on. This gives you the versatility of CVS everywhere,
and locking only at a few places where you really want it.

Paul Gelderblom