[cvsnt] Re: Watched files - problem ?

[Tony Hoyle]

Cole, Martin wrote:
> I thought that Binary files should always deny permission when already being edited by another user.
> 
> I guess we were doing the edit method you said before, but I don't think that this is the difference, I think that it is related to the binary diffing.

That affects nothing but the way RCS stores the file...

There's nothing special about binary files to edit, only for merging.  The 
edit -c and commit -c options are what gives you a (limited) form of reserved 
checkout.

Tony