[cvsnt] Notification sent always when using unedit/commit

Kitzmueller Christian christian.kitzmueller at siemens.com
Thu Oct 2 12:21:54 BST 2003


Thanks to Oliver for mentioning the temporary watches. Searching through the
CVS docs I found out, that you can disable them during the edit command:

  cvs edit -a none ....

The only problem remaining is, how to tell WinCVS to append '-a none' when
starting to edit (menu or toolbar) :)


> Kitzmueller Christian wrote:

>> We're using CVSNT 2.0.11 with watches and as soon as I add valid
>> lines to the notify-file, every CVS-user using 'unedit' or 'commit'
>> on any file (with or without watch) having a matching path in the
>> notify-file gets notified HIMSELF (shouldn't happen at all?).
>> 'edit' works perfectly fine (only the watcher gets notified).
>> Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?
>
> If you run a cvs watchers on any of the files exhibiting this behaviour
> you will see that besides the explicit watches (which you set using the
> cvs watch command) there are also so-called temporary watches
> (identifiable by a "t"-prefix), which get set automatically when
> someone cvs edits a file. I don't know if there is a way to disable
> this functionality but OTOH I think it /does/ make a little sense, even
> though I also did not expect it when I first toyed around with watches
> and notifies...
> 
> Cheers,

-- 
Oliver


More information about the cvsnt mailing list