[cvsnt] Re: Checking out read only files

[Bo Berglund]

On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 16:40:13 -0800, David Vo <vo.david at gmail.com>
wrote:

>How do I check out read only files? I'm using a cvs checkout
><modulename> which checks out my files with normal attributes.
>
>When I checked out files in another module, which was put into source
>control with earlier versions of CVS, I'm forced to use the edit
>command and they're marked read-only.
>
>Now I'm confused because it seems like a checkout on modules recently
>created does an automatic edit.
>

There is an option for cvs co that tells cvs to put read-only flags on
the sandbox files.
If you use WinCvs you can set this in the checkout dialog and it will
remain until you uncheck it.


/Bo
(Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden)