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Haitham Hamad wrote: >I am new to version control and wanted to really know if cvsnt will >satisfy our needs. We are a small shop of a handful of Oracle developer >working on about 600 modules of forms and reports. These modules are >considered binary files by cvs. I am also using tortoisecvs as the front >end. I am testing this setup before rolling it out to the developers. My >main issue is that the update function will not merge changes from two >developers since the files are considered binary (and I am not expecting >it to do so). My questions are >1- Does every developer has to checkout the whole respository and then >update the files before working on them? > > You only check out once. Then do an update once in a while (quite fast). You can check out a part (subfolder) of the repository if you wish. >2-How can a developer know that someone else is working on the same >files? > > By using "Show edited files". Also, attempting to Edit a file already Edit'ed by another developer will fail. >3-Should I enforce locking since the files are binary? How do I go >about that? > > Yes. If you use TortoiseCVS, it will happen automatically. -Torsten