Re: cvs locking and watching...

[Luke Miller]

The watch-edit system looks like it should work fine, but I am not able to 
get it to work.  Here is what I tried:

first person:
cvs co luketest
cvs checkout: Updating luketest
cvs checkout: Updating luketest/luketest
cvs checkout: Updating luketest/luketest/test1
U luketest/luketest/test1/bin1
U luketest/luketest/test1/file1
U luketest/luketest/test1/file2

cd luketest/luketest/test1
cvs watch on bin1
cvs edit bin1

second person:
cvs co luketest
cvs checkout: Updating luketest
cvs checkout: Updating luketest/luketest
cvs checkout: Updating luketest/luketest/test1
U luketest/luketest/test1/bin1
U luketest/luketest/test1/file1
U luketest/luketest/test1/file2

cd luketest/luketest/test1
cvs edit bin1

No where here did it tell the second person that the first was editing the 
file.  So, we now have two people editing a non-mergable file which is not
good.  

I did notice that watch could send e-mail notifications but that relies on
people checking thier e-mail before they edit anything.  Is there a way
to get it to display a warning in the shell when they go to edit the file?

Thanks,

Luke

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* Luke Miller             Unix System Administrator *
* Micro Systems Engineering            503-699-2787 *
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> Luke Miller <address@hidden> on 05/02/2001 02:24:24 PM
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> > [...] Is there a way to tell the second second [sic] person that the first
> person
> >is working in the file before the second person starts to edit it?
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> Um, pick up the phone and call em?  Your next question is probably: "How
> does the first person know to call the second?"  The first person executes
> a cvs watch on the file, and the second person executes a cvs edit on the
> file and gets warned that the first is currently editing it at that time.
> Although I have yet to use these features, as we our developers are in close
> proximity and dont have a problem talking to each other ad nauseum. ;)
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> >Or is there a better way to do what I want?  Maybe CVS isn't what I need for
> >this.
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> If you dont think the edit-watch feature is enough, then CVS is not for
> you.
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> Rex.
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