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I had some problem pushing our team to move our project to CVS (from PVCS). The main problem was this concurrent modifications. I believe it is a great feature, but some people are indeed scared about the idea. To convince them, I have publicised the use of the "edit -c" (only on CVSNT, not baseline CVS). It just means that when you call edit, it checks that there is no other editors on this file. If there is, and you still want to edit, you can force it, but then its your responsibility. (add a line containing "edit -c" in a .cvsrc file in your HOME). The HIC in which many fall now, is that 'cvs edit' does not do an update first. So they have the "lock", and can edit the file, but they are not always on the latest version and need to update + merge before committing.... Back to where we started... Still, they are all convinced now. Feature request: It would be nice to have 'cvs edit' do an update at the same time. Currently (but correct me if necessary) I do not see the point of not doing it. For backward compatibility, we could just add an extra flag, ie 'cvs edit -u' that we could add in our .cvsrc Benoit -----Original Message----- From: Glen Starrett [mailto:grstarrett at cox.net] Sent: 02 May 2003 17:57 To: mqaiserm at qualitycheckinc.com; cvsnt at cvsnt.org cvsnt downloads at march-hare.com @CVSNT on Twitter CVSNT on Facebook Subject: RE: [cvsnt] i want help to lock multiple checkout AFAIK, That's not typically how people use CVS--it is, after all, called "Concurrent Versioning System" not "Lockout Versioning System". I think you will be pleased by the results if you research concurrency more. However, to prevent others from editing a file that one person is editing you can look at admin -L command and the edit, unedit commands that you would use with it. Glen Starrett -----Original Message----- From: cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org [mailto:cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org]On Behalf Of mqaiserm at qualitycheckinc.com Sent: Friday, May 02, 2003 12:57 AM To: cvsnt at cvsnt.org cvsnt downloads at march-hare.com @CVSNT on Twitter CVSNT on Facebook Subject: [cvsnt] i want help to lock multiple checkout Hi ! i want to use cvsnt on server and wincvs as client. i need help that how i can set no multiple checkouts on a repository. i want to create a repository and also i want to set that only one person can do checkout at a time. what i can do. plz help me in this matter. _______________________________________________ cvsnt mailing list cvsnt at cvsnt.org cvsnt downloads at march-hare.com @CVSNT on Twitter CVSNT on Facebook http://www.cvsnt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cvsnt https://www.march-hare.com/cvspro/en.asp#downcvs _______________________________________________ cvsnt mailing list cvsnt at cvsnt.org cvsnt downloads at march-hare.com @CVSNT on Twitter CVSNT on Facebook http://www.cvsnt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cvsnt https://www.march-hare.com/cvspro/en.asp#downcvs