[cvsnt] Help me understand cvsnt before it get dismissed

[Torsten Martinsen]

Haitham Hamad wrote:

>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? 
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You only check out once. Then do an update once in a while (quite fast). 
You can check out a part (subfolder) of the repository if you wish.

>2-How can a developer know that someone else is working on the same
>files?
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By using "Show edited files". Also, attempting to Edit a file already 
Edit'ed by another developer will fail.

>3-Should I enforce locking since the files are binary? How do I go
>about that?
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Yes. If you use TortoiseCVS, it will happen automatically.

-Torsten