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On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 16:40:13 -0800, David Vo <vo.david at gmail.com> wrote: >How do I check out read only files? I'm using a cvs checkout ><modulename> which checks out my files with normal attributes. > >When I checked out files in another module, which was put into source >control with earlier versions of CVS, I'm forced to use the edit >command and they're marked read-only. > >Now I'm confused because it seems like a checkout on modules recently >created does an automatic edit. > There is an option for cvs co that tells cvs to put read-only flags on the sandbox files. If you use WinCvs you can set this in the checkout dialog and it will remain until you uncheck it. /Bo (Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden)