[cvsnt] Help me understand cvsnt before it get dismissed

[Martin Cole]

One of my projects is mSQL backend, using MSAccess frontend, so we have some
similar issues.

to answer your questions the best I can:

1/ Not necessarily, you can just check out part of the project, but
generally I keep the entire tree locally and do an update before editing

2/ If you make the module watched, developers must request edit permission
(cvs edit) which effectively passes them a permission token. Then any user
can use tortoise to do "cvs > show edited files" to know who (if anyone) has
the token.

3/ I would, and do on my projects

4/ Kinda depends on what you need to know - With respect to our database
code (in access) I implemented an export class that exports all queries,
classes, and modules to text files in an ".\Export" folder and I keep these
in cvs. This way I can use viewcvs to see code and sql changes. To get sql
exported, it must be visible in the access frontend.


Good luck
Marts




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Haitham Hamad" <Hhamad at LeprinoFoods.com>
To: <cvsnt at cvsnt.org>
Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 9:20 AM
Subject: [cvsnt] Help me understand cvsnt before it get dismissed


> I am new to version control and wanted to really know if cvsnt will
> satisfy our needs. We are a small shop of a handful of Oracle developer
> working on about 600 modules of forms and reports. These modules are
> considered binary files by cvs. I am also using tortoisecvs as the front
> end. I am testing this setup before rolling it out to the developers. My
> main issue is that the update function will not merge changes from two
> developers since the files are considered binary (and I am not expecting
> it to do so). My questions are
> 1- Does every developer has to checkout the whole respository and then
> update the files before working on them?
> 2-How can a developer know that someone else is working on the same
> files?
> 3-Should I enforce locking since the files are binary? How do I go
> about that?
> 4-I appreciate general instructions on how my shop can use cvsnt?
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> Thanks in advance
> Haitham
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