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Jerzy Kaczorowski wrote: >E.g. someone will do edit -x, forget about it and go on for holidays. Others >are stuck. > As Tony said, an admin can fix that case. >Or someone will lock the whole folder with all the files, even if >working on a couple of files > That is not a technical problem, that is a people problem. Anybody doing that should only get one warning before getting kicked out. >and it takes time to track that down and beg >the guy to un-edit it. Or the "manager" is not comfortable with concurent >development model and will force everyone to use that. > Annoying, but a PHB might as well force his team to use PVCS, SourceSafe, etc. I agree with Tony that concurrent edits are to be preferred, but having "exclusive" functionality in CVSNT actually makes it easier to convince management to switch from a non-concurrent SCM to CVS. And after that, it's easier to sneak in concurrent development :-) -Torsten