Re: Viewing the latest copies of CVS

[Mark D. Baushke]

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shivraman giri <address@hidden> writes:


> Is there a way we can view (read only) the latest copies of the
> sources maintained by CVS.

Sure. 

viewcvs.sourceforge.net is a good thing to use for this.
Example: http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/gcc/

Another possibility is to provide an anonymous read-only guest account
for checkouts.

> eg: in VSS, we can open the files from the location where they are
> stored in the server. can we do a similar thing in CVS, ie, browse
> into the repository and open the file without the ", v" at the end of
> each file.

While possible, it is a bad idea to give users direct access to the ,v
files in ways that could compromise the repository integrity by possibly
creating RCS locks where they were not expected.

> PS: in case it is not a recommended practice, plz let me know a
> workaround. Our intention is that anyone in the group should be able
> to view the latest copy at the server( repository), without the
> necessity of updating the local copy

You could use the loginfo to trigger a 'cvs update' of a publicly
available checked out copy of the checked-out repository.

        -- Mark

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