Re: Undesirable Watch/Edit Behavior

[Jim Hyslop]

Todd Foster wrote:
> I am not sure I agree with that.  The act of doing a fresh checkout of that
> file (either via a new "checkout" or "update -C" or what-not) makes CVS 
> forget
> that you are editing that file.  "cvs editors" no longer returns you as 
> an editor of
> that file (regardless of where you run it from - either the first or the 
> second directory).
>
> Personally, I consider that a bug.  I believe I have even seen a patch 
> submitted
> to change this behavior thought I don't remember what the patch did.

Yes, I'd forgotten about that bug and patch - thanks for the reminder. I 
just checked the NEWS file, and it doesn't look like the patch has been 
released yet. My apologies for the misinformation.

--
Jim