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> Here is my question. Does anyone know were to look in CVS to > remove watches. > Specifically what file/field do I need to modify on a ,v file > or configuration file to remove a watcher or turn of watches? > (Bo and Tony, I'm hope you might be able to tell me what I > need to modify under the hood to fix this problem.) Theres a file called fileattr.xml which resides on the server in the CVS folder in each folder in your repository. This file contains the watch information for watches on files. You should be able to delete this file and in effect remove all watches from the files in the selected folder. Trevor > -----Original Message----- > From: cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org > [mailto:cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org] On Behalf Of Lehman, Curtis > Sent: Wednesday, 18 January 2006 11:32 a.m. > To: 'Gerhard Fiedler'; 'cvsnt at cvsnt.org cvsnt downloads at march-hare.com @CVSNT on Twitter CVSNT on Facebook' > Subject: RE: [cvsnt] Re: cvsnt watch stuck... > > (Sorry if a dup, first e-mail was to large.) > > Thanks Gerhard for the suggestion. I gave it a try, but it > didn't help. I think I discovered the problem. I believe > Microsoft pushed down an update sometime this year that > caused the user names that get handed off to the CVS server > to change case. I have a script that only allows certain > users to delete tags. The script checks a list of user names > and was working at one point. Without any changes to CVS, the > script stopped working. It used to work for the user > "clehman". I just had to change it to "CLehman" to make it > work. I believe the users names are now being handed off from > windows to the CVS with the first two letters capitalized. It > looks like the watch command is case sensitive. I don't think > I can modify windows to hand off with all lower case. > > Here is my question. Does anyone know were to look in CVS to > remove watches. > Specifically what file/field do I need to modify on a ,v file > or configuration file to remove a watcher or turn of watches? > (Bo and Tony, I'm hope you might be able to tell me what I > need to modify under the hood to fix this problem.) > > Thanks, > Curtis Lehman > > -----Original Message----- > From: Gerhard Fiedler [mailto:lists at connectionbrazil.com] > Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2006 2:06 PM > To: cvsnt at cvsnt.org cvsnt downloads at march-hare.com @CVSNT on Twitter CVSNT on Facebook > Subject: [cvsnt] Re: cvsnt watch stuck... > > Lehman, Curtis wrote: > > > Here is the output from the commands I did on one of the files: > > > > cvs -z3 -w -q watchers -- memmap.h (in directory > > C:\projects\flexsys\tools\Wintegra_bsp_tools\) > > memmap.h clehman edit unedit commit > > > > ***** CVS exited normally with code 0 ***** > > > > cvs -z3 -w -q watch remove -- memmap.h (in directory > > C:\projects\flexsys\tools\Wintegra_bsp_tools\) > > > > ***** CVS exited normally with code 0 ***** > > > > cvs -z3 -w -q watchers -- memmap.h (in directory > > C:\projects\flexsys\tools\Wintegra_bsp_tools\) > > memmap.h clehman edit unedit commit > > > > ***** CVS exited normally with code 0 ***** > > I don't know myself for sure, but did you try using "-a all" > in the watch remove command? The command help seems to > indicate that you need to specify what watch action you want > to add or remove: > > Gerhard > _______________________________________________ > 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 > ###################################################################### Attention: This e-mail message is privileged and confidential. If you are not the intended recipient please delete the message and notify the sender. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author. ######################################################################