[cvsnt] Re: edit -c with CVS-Server 1.11.x under Solaris (Don't understand why this works)

[Oliver Giesen]

Frank Knobloch wrote:

> Our cvs server runs on Solaris and has actually the version 1.11.1p1. 
> Normally this version doesn't support cvs edit -c. If i use this with 
> original cvs (1.12.10) client i get: "cvs.exe [edit aborted]: Server
> does not support enforced advisory locks."
> 
> But it work's fine when i use cvsnt.
>  
> Why? Was the feature already released in 1.11? If so, checks the
> version 1.12 from cvs the version of the server and produces the
> message cause of the version (although the feature is implemented)?

According to something Tony posted a while ago, edit -c is a pure
client-side thing. It's merely the equivalent of first running cvs
editors before doing the actual edit.

I have no idea why the GNU CVS 1.12 client seems to have implemented
some kind of check forbidding this. Maybe edit -c means something
entirely else there... I didn't even know GNU CVS officially had edit
-c by now... does anyone know what it does? Could this be another
compatiblity issue like the one with ls/rls ?

Cheers,

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