[cvsnt] Reserved Checkouts

[David Stebbings]

We work with a kind of compromise for reserved checkouts.

All the developers WinCVS clients are set to checkout read only by default
and they have hit the "edit" button in order to work on a file.

The procedure is that if someone else is shown as working on the file they
immediately unedit the file and ask the other person if they've finished.
Also the perl script sends an email to the relevant people.

It's not stopping 2 people editing the same file at once, but it does get
them to talk to each other :)

David

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kaj E. Ozolins [mailto:keo at mawglobal.de]
> Sent: 14 November 2002 14:38
> To: cvsnt at cvsnt.org
> Subject: [cvsnt] Reserved Checkouts
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> we swiched from VSS to CVS (mixed CVS and WinCVS) recently. Though all
> developers love to use CVS rather than VSS (meanwhile) some 
> are missing
> the ability to make particular reserved checkouts. (Okay... I 
> know about
> the philosophical dimension this topic issues.)
> 
> From the CQ-Manual we've learned about the "admin -l" option -- but
> WinCVS tells this command is deprecated.
> 
> So does anybody know how to setup CVS-NT with reserved checkout
> capabilities or how to apply this mode to a particular module or file
> (from a client's cvs-system)?
> 
> Thanks much in advance for any help.
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Kaj
> 
> 
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