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Tony Hoyle wrote: > Thierry Moreau wrote: > > > When I do a cvs checkout or a cvs update, these two files come up > > read-write in the working directory. It defeats my purpose of having > > specified "cvs watch on" for them, isn't it? > > 'watch' will trigger the notify script when you commit a change to the file. > If you checkout read only you can use the 'edit -c' and 'commit -c' > commands. It's far better to just forget about it, though, and let cvs do > what it's good at :-) Thanks for the advice (basically, leave files R/W in the working directory and forget about "cvs edit"). In any event, I do not intend to use "cvs edit -c" which is indeed documented as a suboptimal use of CVS. However, "cvs watch on" is documented to *both* force a read-only checkout (which I find useful to quickly identify the files that are unmodified) and trigger the notification mechanism (which I don't need). My main observation is that the "permissions 666;" does interfere with the documented effect of "cvs watch on" with respect to read-only checkout. > > Tony -- - Thierry Moreau CONNOTECH Experts-conseils inc. 9130 Place de Montgolfier Montreal, Qc H2M 2A1 Tel.: (514)385-5691 Fax: (514)385-5900 e-mail: thierry.moreau at connotech.com