Re: cvs admin -L

[vikas arora]

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Adding to it, is there a way out to unlock a specific file by a person other
then the person who has actually locked it.
eg. say a file 'abc' is locked by user 'a'. I want some administrator sort
of user who can unlock any file locked by any of the users.

Regards
Vikas

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry Jones" <address@hidden>
To: "Marcelo Carvalho Fernandes" <address@hidden>
Cc: <address@hidden>
Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2004 3:44 AM
Subject: Re: cvs admin -L


> Marcelo Carvalho Fernandes writes:
> >
> > In "cvs admin" command, there is a -L option that says:
> >
> > "Set stricting lock. Strict locking means that the owner of an RCS file
is
> > not exempt from locking for checkin"
> >
> > What does it mean ? Can you give a exemple ?
>
> It's a hold-over from RCS.  RCS files being used by CVS should always
> have it enabled (that's how CVS creates them, but files that were
> originally used with RCS and then moved into CVS might not).
>
> -Larry Jones
>
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