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This is one of the things I have been wanting to fix for a while - I think it would be quite easy to add a new keyword (say _exclusive) to CVS/fileattr on the server. In this way true exclusive edits could be implemented. Some day when I get lots of free time :-) ... -Torsten ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tony Hoyle" <tmh at nodomain.org> Newsgroups: support.cvsnt To: <cvsnt at cvsnt.org cvsnt downloads at march-hare.com @CVSNT on Twitter CVSNT on Facebook> Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 10:48 Subject: Re: [cvsnt] problems with edit/commit -c > On Mon, 16 Sep 2002 19:44:40 +0000, Kim Sparrow wrote: > > > The 'edit -c' part seems to work fine. When the other person tries to > > do an 'edit -c', it says "cvs [edit aborted]: files being edited!" > > Good. When the other tries to do a plain 'edit', the CVS\fileattr file > > in the repository correctly notes that both are now editors of the file. > > But when only one of us has a reserved edit and the other tries a > > 'commit -c' the file gets committed as if it wasn't locked, no warning > > message or anything. From > > http://www.devguy.com/fp/cfgmgmt/tools/install.htm I think I understand > > how it's supposed to work.. and yet what I'm observing doesn't quite > > match up. I don't need to do any scripting in the CVSROOT directory > > like in the old 'admin -l' days do I? I'm using 57i. > > CVS doesn't distinguish between a 'reserved' edit and a 'plain' edit, so > you can circumvent the 'edit -c' system in the way you describe. 'commit > -c' just checks to see if you're a valid editor of the file. If you want > to use reserved edits all the time you can tell CVS to always use '-c' by > using a .cvsrc file in the home directory containing the default options.