[cvsnt] Watched files - read only?

[Torsten Martinsen]

Anne Bonham wrote:

>From the docs it sounds like watched files automatically get coppied to your
>working copy in a read-only state.
>
>I have enabled watching of some files and it seems to work (if I list the
>watchers, it tells me who is watching it), but it is not making the watched
>files read-only. Should it? Or am I misunderstanding this?
>
The files only get set to read-only when doing a checkout, not when 
doing a normal update, and not when setting the watch.

I.e. if you set "watch on", then on the *next* checkout the file will be 
read-only.

A workaround is to delete the file(s) in your sandbox, then do an update.

-Torsten