Re: How to set CVS be the reserved checkout mode only?

[Noel Yap]

--- "LIU,SHI-ZHOU (HP-China,ex2)" <address@hidden>
wrote:
> CVS server version:1.11.2 on HP-UX 11i
> CVS client: Win CVS 1.3.8.1 on Win2K

I'd upgrade the client to be able to take advantage of
some newer commands (eg "cvs edit").

> How to set CVS be the reserved checkout mode only? 
> I mean that if one
> checkout a file and edit it, before he/she commit
> it, other can't edit the
> file.

CVS doesn't have reserved locks.

What you can do, though, is to take a look at the
advisory locks patch available at SourceForge under
project RCVS.  It'll pretty much give you what you
want except that, if a developer doesn't follow the
rules (ie doesn't do "cvs edit -c") or forces an edit
(ie does "cvs edit -f"), they'll be able to edit the
file.  The advantage is that, assuming users have
"edit -c" in their ~/.cvsrc files, they'll be notified
of someone else's edit before going ahead with "cvs
edit -f" if they so choose.

> Now, we use the rcslock.pl file according to the
> book: Version Management
> with CVS for CVS 1.11.2 by Per Cederqvist et al
> And run the command  "cvs admin -l", but thus make
> no one can commit any
> file.
> If i run the command "cvs admin -L", when one
> editing a file, other also
> want to edit the file, it will give out the message:

IMHO, using "cvs admin" should be avoided as much as
possible since it's a tunnel to the underlying RCS
implementation.

HTH,
Noel

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