Re: Undesirable Watch/Edit Behavior

[Todd Foster]

> 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.
>
> --
> Jim

I am not sure I agree with that.  The act of doing a fresh checkout of that
file (either via a new "checkout" or "update -C" or what-not) makes CVS 
forget
that you are editing that file.  "cvs editors" no longer returns you as an 
editor of
that file (regardless of where you run it from - either the first or the 
second directory).

Personally, I consider that a bug.  I believe I have even seen a patch 
submitted
to change this behavior thought I don't remember what the patch did.

Todd