[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have come across a problem where after merging my conflicting file > with WinMerge if there were any changes on the left hand side of the > comparison view WinMerge will ask me to save under a different name > because the file is set as read only by TortoiseCVS. > > Can tortoise CVS be told to not make the temporary file (on the left > of comparison view) not read only? I don't know. You would probably get better information from a list that specializes in Tortoise and/or CVSNT - this list specializes in the CVS implementation available from cvshome.org
> I saw one site > http://lcgcvs.web.cern.ch/lcgcvs/howto.html#accessing-winmerge > where there work around is "Remember that the file on the left in > WinMerge is just a temporary copy of the file in CVS. Modify the file > on the right, save it and then commit the changes using WinCVS." I'm not familiar with Tortoise, but that advice seems to me to be extremely sensible. I wouldn't even view it as a "work around" - a workaround is a series of steps you have to do, to bypass some bug in the program. Their suggestion is, in my opinion, a very good Recommended Practise. -- Jim Hyslop Senior Software Designer Leitch Technology International Inc. (http://www.leitch.com) Columnist, C/C++ Users Journal (http://www.cuj.com/experts) _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
