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Thanks to Oliver for mentioning the temporary watches. Searching through the CVS docs I found out, that you can disable them during the edit command: cvs edit -a none .... The only problem remaining is, how to tell WinCVS to append '-a none' when starting to edit (menu or toolbar) :) > Kitzmueller Christian wrote: >> We're using CVSNT 2.0.11 with watches and as soon as I add valid >> lines to the notify-file, every CVS-user using 'unedit' or 'commit' >> on any file (with or without watch) having a matching path in the >> notify-file gets notified HIMSELF (shouldn't happen at all?). >> 'edit' works perfectly fine (only the watcher gets notified). >> Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong? > > If you run a cvs watchers on any of the files exhibiting this behaviour > you will see that besides the explicit watches (which you set using the > cvs watch command) there are also so-called temporary watches > (identifiable by a "t"-prefix), which get set automatically when > someone cvs edits a file. I don't know if there is a way to disable > this functionality but OTOH I think it /does/ make a little sense, even > though I also did not expect it when I first toyed around with watches > and notifies... > > Cheers, -- Oliver