Re: lock-modify-unlock model and cvs admin -l

[Larry Jones]

John Lippiello writes:
> 
> My company uses the lock-modify-unlock model of software 
> development.  We are considering moving to CVS.  I see in
> the Cederqvist document in Sec. A.6.1 that there is a way
> to lock using "cvs admin -l".  At the start of section
> A.6 is a comment that some of the options in this section
> have questionable usefulness and  may be removed.  Does 
> anyone know if the "cvs admin -l" is classified as having 
> questionable usefulness.

At least.  Many of us would classify it as having negative usefulness.

-Larry Jones

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