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pushok wrote: > (www.pushok.com) and I have many requests from users, that slightly > surprised that offline edit\unedit not work. > Once again it is possible to make simple file writable, but for me > this > is more dangerous that offline edit\unedit. > So may be possible to return back default behavior and make current > behavior controlled via some option? For example for edit -c I think > normal behavior is fails in offline, but simple edit should work, I > think. > It can't - it's architecturally impossible with the way that cvsnt handles online/offline (which has quite a few advantages, any why it was changed over a year ago). I see no reason to use cvs edit when offline. Its purpose is for reserved checkouts and tracking of nonmergable files, both of which require you to be online. 90% of users will either never use edit, and of the remainder most will be online permanently anyway, so you're basically asking for a major change to the system just to cope with a very small minority of users. Making a file writable is *identical* to an offline edit (except for the copying the original, but you can do that with explorer anyay if it matters). But then writable is the default in cvs anyway.. for a good reason - cvs copes with multiple editors of a file perfectly well. Tony