Reserved checkouts.

2001-05-02 Thread Richard Sharp
Members Equity Email System Hi all, from my reading of the docs (I'm new to CVS), you can have reserved check outs if you issue a cvs admin -l. I've tried this (I'm using CVS 1.11), it locks the file but still allows another user to check this file out. How can we force reserved

Re: Reserved checkouts.

2001-05-02 Thread Henner Zeller
Don't use reserved checkouts -- they should be buried in Software Configuration Management history. As such, they are not actively supported by CVS. If you want to have something similar, but much more flexible (locking + still the possibility to edit it by others with automatic notificati

RE: Reserved checkouts.

2001-05-02 Thread Richard Sharp
Members Equity Email System But I do need to use reserved checkouts - I have examined the issues for and against and have decided on reserved checkouts. Some of our files will not be able to be merged as they are graphic files etc. Any ideas ? -Original Message- From: Henner Zeller

RE: Reserved checkouts.

2001-05-02 Thread Noel L Yap
ou want them. You'll only "need" to use reserved checkouts if your developers refuse to stick to procedures. Noel [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 2001.05.02 06:11:14 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (bcc: Noel L Yap) Subject: RE: Reserved checkouts. Members Equity Email

Re: Reserved checkouts.

2001-05-02 Thread David H. Thornley
Richard Sharp wrote: > > Members Equity Email System > But I do need to use reserved checkouts - I have examined the issues for and > against and have decided on reserved checkouts. Some of our files will not > be able to be merged as they are graphic files etc. Any ideas ? &g

Re: Reserved checkouts.

2001-05-02 Thread Noel L Yap
[EMAIL PROTECTED] on 2001.05.02 10:21:54 >What you want is some way of controlling who's working on the >file at any given time, and the CVS way to do that is to set >"cvs watch on" all files that you want to control, and ask >the developers to use "cvs edit" to unlock them. This isn't >stric

Re: Reserved checkouts.

2001-05-02 Thread Matthias Kranz
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 08:11:14PM +1000, Richard Sharp wrote: > Members Equity Email System > But I do need to use reserved checkouts - I have examined the issues for and > against and have decided on reserved checkouts. Some of our files will not > be able to be merged as they are g

RE: Reserved checkouts.

2001-05-02 Thread Noel L Yap
t contact other editors for any reason. Noel [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 2001.05.02 06:11:14 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (bcc: Noel L Yap) Subject: RE: Reserved checkouts. Members Equity Email System But I do need to use reserved checkouts - I have examined the issues for and

RE: Reserved checkouts.

2001-05-02 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Wednesday, May 2, 2001 at 20:11:14 (+1000), Richard Sharp wrote: ] > Subject: RE: Reserved checkouts. > > Members Equity Email System > But I do need to use reserved checkouts - I have examined the issues for and > against and have decided on reserved checkouts. Some of our

RE: Reserved checkouts.

2001-05-02 Thread Richard Sharp
D]] Sent: Thursday, 3 May 2001 2:34AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Reserved checkouts. Let me make things more explicit. With the patches and 'edit -c' and 'checkin -c' in ~/.cvsrc, the work flow would be: 1. Developer checks out

FW: Reserved checkouts.

2001-05-02 Thread Richard Sharp
" ie it does not fail when I've tried to check it out as another user. Any ideas ? -Original Message- From: Noel L Yap [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 3 May 2001 2:34AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Reserved checkouts. Let m

RE: Reserved checkouts.

2001-05-03 Thread Noel L Yap
t" ie it does not fail when I've tried to check it out as another user. Any ideas ? -Original Message- From: Noel L Yap [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 3 May 2001 2:34AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Reserved checkouts. Le

Re: FW: Reserved checkouts.

2001-05-03 Thread Noel L Yap
c: Noel L Yap)| | Subject: FW: Reserved checkouts. | >| Members Equity Email System Sorry about this but I forgot to mention

RE: reserved checkouts in CVS (Was: How well does CVS handle other types of data?)

2001-07-14 Thread Noel L Yap
day, July 13, 2001 at 12:19:09 (-0700), Jimmy Rimmer wrote: ] > Subject: RE: How well does CVS handle other types of data? > > Or, you could just use the patch for reserved checkouts: > http://www.cvshome.org/cyclic/cvs/dev-reserve.html No, you can't. That does nothing for branches