[cvsnt] Re: How does the reserved edit command work in CVSNT?

[John Albrecht]

Thanks for clarifying this!

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From: cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org [mailto:cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org] On Behalf Of
Tony Hoyle
Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 6:30 PM
To: cvsnt at cvsnt.org
Subject: [cvsnt] Re: How does the reserved edit command work in CVSNT?


John Albrecht wrote:
> I have tried testing the reserved edit cmd  (cvs edit -c) using CVSNT 
> 2.0.41a and WinCVS 1.3.17.2 and I am not getting the results I thought 
> I would get. I set the reserved edit on a file, ( I tried a text file 
> then a binary file with the same outcome ), and  modified the file and 
> the other user was not prevented from editing and committing to the 
> repository.  I thought this placed a strict lock on the selected file?  
> Can someone explain or correct me?

It's just a reserved edit, not really the same as a lock.  If the other 
user doesn't also use edit -c/commit -c to check for this edit on commit 
then there's nothing stopping them from editing.

There's some new stuff coming in the new version that does exclusive edits.

Tony
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