Re: Another stupid question ...

[Max Bowsher]

David Whitehurst wrote:
> If I get cvs checkout <myproject> to work.  Can others do the same?

Yes.

> And,
> does this mean that CVS "cares" who all has complete copies of the
projects
> or ... does it only count when any of us checkin?

There is no tracking of checkouts.

> I am a Visual SourceSafe
> guy and this is a little different.
>
> I want to have several developers use my CVS server.  Can someone explain
> some scenarios?  And, do we checkout everything to get a local copy to
begin
> to build

Yes.

> or can we just get a read only version and then checkout single
> files?

CVS simply does not use the concept of "reserved checkouts". Any conflicts
that may occur are resolved at checkin time, automatically unless they
overlap.



Max.