Re: "Watch" question

[Mark D. Baushke]

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Trevor J <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello there,
> Anyone familiar with CVS watches?

Some.

> We need to add "locking" security to our files and I was curious if
> anyone had any experience with turning "CVS WATCH ON".

Sure.

> My question is....

> If a developer "locks" a file in the middle of working on it and gets
> sick or quits the company, is there a way to unlock that file when
> there is no way to go to that developers computer to "unlock" that
> file?

For cvs 1.12.14 (not yet released), the 'cvs watch' command will allow
an administrator to use the '-u user' switch to remove watches for
'user' from particular files. This code was added to the CVS version of
the FEATURE branch by Derek on 2006-05-16.

Prior to that, things were a bit more painful and required either
resurrection of the user or explict modification of the CVS/fileattr
file in the repository itself to remove users that were no longer
present.

        Enjoy!
        -- Mark
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