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Oliver Giesen wrote: >> Why? We use this feature sometimes to temporarily prevent users from >> modifing certain directories. > > Now that's "abuse" not "use". It's certainly not what the Edit command > was intended for. The whole point of CVS is "allowing nevertheless > without troubles" not "preventing just because" IMO. The Edit > mechanism is a means for easing collaboration and team coordination > as it lets you see who's doing what at the moment (without imposing > any restrictions at the same time). The preventive functionality that > Reserved Edit adds on top of that was borne from a technical > inconvenience (namely that some files (especially binary files) could > not be automatically merged) and not from the desire to lock certain > people out. I shouldn't have said prevent... I meant: warn the user so that if he wants to edit a file in the directory, a message tells him that someone is already editing this file. So what he does is unediting the file or calling the editor and talk to him. > If you want to set up access/commit restrictions for certain users or > user groups you should use ACLs instead. And those *are* branch aware > BTW. TortoiseCVS-frontend does not support setting ACLs. BTW I think, it doesn't has to. >> But you can't edit a tagged version of the file. At least you can't >> commit changes to a tagged file, > > You could commit. All you have to do is: Normally you edit a file, make your changes and commit them. For not up-to-date or tagged files you can't do this without doing "special" things. So let's give the user a hint, _before_ he begins hacking code. [snipped 2 solutions for editing tagged files] I've send a feature request to TortoiseCVS to support these two solutions. But they can't implement them efficently, because they can't see if the tag is a branch or revision tag (except they connect to the server twice, which sometimes takes long). That's why I wrote this feature request to cvsnt. Christian