John Cavanaugh's CVS Branch Locking Patches

[Chuck . Irvine]

My group needs the ability to control checkin to specified branches.
I've poked around a log on usenet and see that this is a very often
asked for feature in CVS. Two questions:


1. Could someone point me an up to date verion of John Cavanaugh's
patches that provide this functionality? These don't seem to listed on
http://www.cvshome.com/dev/patches.html. Why?

2. Since this is an often asked for feature, why couldn't John's patches
be folded in to the official release?

Many thanks in advance.

Chuck Irvine
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