RE: CVS list files in repository which are currently in checked out status

[Rupa Bholanath Lahiri]

Hi,

Thank you.
The command indicated - `cvs release  -d oldtree` needs to be fired from the 
working copy? Is there any command which can be executed from the CVS Server 
itself to check which are the files which are currently checked out by users?

Regards,
Rupa

-----Original Message-----
From: Todd Denniston [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 4:41 AM
To: Risman, Mark
Cc: Rupa Bholanath Lahiri; address@hidden
Subject: Re: CVS list files in repository which are currently in checked out 
status

Risman, Mark wrote, On 08/18/2009 11:05 AM:
> Rupa,
> 
> You can scan the history file to see what files have ever been checked
> out, but that won't tell you whether the users still have those files
> that were checked out. This is because there is no opposite, or end, of
> a checkout command. 
> 

Not _quite_ true.
Although you don't have to, and I most times don't, there is the cvs command:
  `cvs release  oldtree`
  (or if you like getting rid of the tree if there are no _CVS_ _detectable_ 
differences between 
sandbox and tree...)
  `cvs release  -d oldtree`
which a user might use instead of `rm -r oldtree`.

the manual indicates that:
"
This command is meant to safely cancel the effect of 'cvs checkout'. ...
This command checks that no uncommitted changes are present; that you are 
executing it from 
immediately above a CVS working directory; and that the repository recorded for 
your files is the 
same as the repository defined in the module database.

If all these conditions are true, 'cvs release' leaves a record of its 
execution (attesting to your 
intentionally abandoning your checkout) in the CVS history log.
"

just don't confuse it with cvs remove which has a QUITE different effect. (part 
of the reason I 
don't use release often.)

> It's similar to looking at an .html web page which was looked at by a
> web browser. You might have an access log on the web server that tells
> when the user accessed that page, but you can't tell if they still have
> it open. A CVS checkout is a bit like a download in that regard.
> 

I agree with this analogy in the normal use case, however it does not have to 
be.

> - Mark
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden
> [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of
> RupaL
> Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 2:12 AM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: CVS list files in repository which are currently in checked out
> status
> 
> 
> Hi,
> Is there a command or a way or a tools/script to list the files which
> have
> been checked out from the repository , i.e. list files which are
> currently
> checked out by various users. Doing this is useful before doing a build
> 
> Regards,
> Rupa


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