[cvsnt] Re: Feature idea: "brute-force update"

Trevor Leybourne trevor.leybourne at aderant.com
Wed Jan 11 23:07:37 GMT 2006


How does one make a file static in CVS? I just scanned the CVS e-book
and could not find a reference to this feature.

Trevor 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org 
> [mailto:cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org] On Behalf Of Arthur Barrett
> Sent: Thursday, 12 January 2006 12:13 p.m.
> To: Czarnowski, Aric; Tony Hoyle; cvsnt at cvsnt.org
> Subject: RE: [cvsnt] Re: Feature idea: "brute-force update"
> 
> Aric,
> 
> >everybody.  When somebody customizes the stub and commits 
> it, everybody 
> >else sees the in-the-way error.
> 
> For this case, it may be more appropriate to mark the file as 
> "static".  This will cause:
> 1. it not to be committed unless you use "force"
> 2. all updates will overwrite with the newer file regardless 
> of modification status
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> Arthur Barrett
> 
> 
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