[cvsnt] Re: CVS for Oracle forms.

[Julian Opificius]

Bo Berglund wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 08:50:21 +0400, Vinay Jhumun
> <ljhumun at sil.intnet.mu> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hi,
>>Can anyone help me plz,
>>Well, i hve a CVSNT server installed on a Windows 2003 server,
>>and i hve developers working on oracle forms,
>>
>>my question is can they use cvs for the configuration management, can 
>>they put their forms, i.e the .fmd and .fmx on the cvs,
>>and can two developers work on the same form, etc,
>>
> 
> I don't know the format of Oracle form files, but of course you can
> version control them with CVS. The functionality will depend on the
> file format though:
> 
> 1. If the files are text files:
> No problems here, people can work in parallel on the same files even
> and CVS will help them consolidate their respective work.
> 
> 2. If the files are binary:
> This is harder because CVS cannot do any consolidation (merging) of
> work done at the same time by several people. In this case you must
> set up your server to use "reserved edits", which means that only one
> developer at a time can edit the file. Of course all developers can
> have a working copy of all files, but they will be readonly for all
> but the editor. Noone else can start an edit session until the file
> has been committed from the one who has it in edit state.
> 

This is an interesting idea. Can CVSNT be configured to force reserved 
edit on binary files?

julian.