Hi, I'm trying to use CVS 1.10.8 on Windows NT with a respository on an drive mounted using NFS. It seems that any commit operation fails if the previous commit was done by a different user. Further investigation reveals that CVS creates a new version for the appropriate ',v' file in the repository under a temporary name and then does a rename to update the 'real' version. On NT, this rename fails if the destination file exists, is read-only and is owned by a different user (quite a common situation for any module being developed by multiple users). Judging by comments in a number of documents (e.g. the CVS Manual and the change logs), this problem has been reported before but never completely fixed (I notice there's an NT specific rename function but that it still attempts to rename on top of a read-only file potentially owned by a different user). Can this be fixed? It would seem that removing the destination of the rename first would cure the problem but is this perceived is too dangerous? Could the destination be copied or renamed away first? This problem is quite a show-stopper for me -- my only option is to use CVS in server mode on a UNIX machine. Cheers, Chris -- Chris Poole, R&D Engineer, BBC Research & Development Dept., Tel: +44 (0)1737 839772 Kingswood Warren, Fax: +44 (0)1737 836665 Tadworth, Surrey, KT20 6NP, U.K. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
