[cvsnt] Re: Locking out specific projects...

[Glen Starrett]

Lehman, Curtis wrote:
> In-between steps 1 and 4 could be several hours, but after step one the code
> base will be broken until step 4 is done. How can I lock out all the users
> from checking out or committing changes to the project?  I don't want to
> stop the CVS service on the server because that blocks the other unrelated
> projects in the company from continuing to use CVS. I thought about writing
> a pearl script to call from one of the CVSROOT files like commitinfo, but
> that doesn't stop the checkout. Any suggestions? 

Check out the LockServer page in http://www.cvsnt.org/wiki/LockServer , 
there's a tip there that might do what you're looking for:  A way to 
lock all the files in a particular module until you cancel the lock.

-- 
Glen Starrett