Re: Undesirable Watch/Edit Behavior

[Jim Hyslop]

address@hidden wrote:
> I've set up a CVS module with "cvs watch on" so that users have to use
> "cvs edit" to reserve files for editing.  This works fine for serial
> editing of unmergeable binary files files.  When users try to edit
> files already marked for editing by someone else they are told the file
> is unavailable for editing as expected.
>
> The problem that I've encountered is that if a user subsequently checks
> out the same module again to a different location (i.e. two different
> sandboxes for the same module) CVS forgets about any files that user
> marked for editing before the second checkout.  Is this behavior by
> design or a bug?  I'm using CVS version 1.11.1p1 on a Linux server?

That's pretty much by design. Each checkout is completely independent of 
any other checkouts, and CVS does not make any attempt to coordinate 
between multiple checkouts. Thus, CVS has not forgotten anything - if 
your users go back to the first directory, they'll find that it is 
currently "Edit"ed by them.

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Jim