RE: Locking Branches patch

[Vic Gedris]

On Sun, 11 Feb 2001 Irvine_Chuck_R/address@hidden wrote:

> Vic,
>
> Attached are two files: John's patches for cvs-1.11 and his commit info
> perl script to implement branch locking. The patches provide the hooks
> that the perl script uses. You could, of course, write your own script
> if you prefer.
>
> It would be great if these patches could get merged into a future
> release. If I had not found a way to implement branch locking, I am
> pretty certain that eventually we would have been forced by management
> to use another SCM system that did provide this capability.
>
> If the CVS maintainers would care to comment on what it would take to
> get the patches merged in, I might be able to do the work required.

Hi Chuck,

Many thanks!  I now have a patched source and functioning binary, but
how do I actually use the new features?

Is the perl program supposed to act as a wrapper script for the actual
cvs binary?  If so, can you give me an example of how it works?  Or is
there at least some documentation that would tell me how to actually use
the branch locking, so that I could write my own script?

Sorry for pestering with questions, but I'm new to CVS and this feature
just isn't documented.

Cheers,
Vic Gedris