RE: How to find out who all have checked out a particular file

[Chris Greenaway]

The cvs -r checkout is used to get a read-only copy. You can automate this by setting the CVSREAD environment variable (e.g. export CVSREAD="blah") or putting cvs -r in the .cvsrc file. This doesn't enforce it though as someone might unset (or not set) CVSREAD or change their .cvsrc file. I suppose you could always change the permissions on their .cvsrc file so that they don't have write permission but a developer could still get round it using cvs -f to ignore the .cvsrc file. You've got to trust your developers at some point. :-)

 

 

        Chris.

-----Original Message-----
From: Shyam L [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: 23 August 2001 00:01
To: Chris Greenaway; address@hidden
Subject: Re: How to find out who all have checked out a particular file

In that case, how do you enforce a read-only checkout for every developer?

 

Thanks,

Shyam

----- Original Message -----

From: Chris Greenaway

To: 'Shyam L' ; address@hidden

Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 11:24 AM

Subject: RE: How to find out who all have checked out a particular file

In CVS there is no concept of having checked out a file (except) to create your initial sandbox. You just change the file then commit your changes. Your developers could use cvs edit to indicate that they are editing a file - this works especially well when the sandbox is created read-only (cvs -r checkout module-name) as cvs edit will make the file writable. If the developers are all using cvs edit then cvs editors can be used to see who has run cvs edit on a file.

 

            Chris.

-----Original Message-----
From: Shyam L [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: 22 August 2001 18:50
To: address@hidden
Subject: How to find out who all have checked out a particular file

Hi,

 

In CVS, if I want to find out who all have checked out a particular file, is there a way to do it? I guess not. Does anybody know of any workaround if I want to enforce this, may be writing some wrappers?

 

Thanks in advance,

Shyam

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