Re: A way to see who has checked out a module?

[Steve deRosier]

Again...  this isn't going to tell you much.  It basically gives you a 
log of certain activity with the system.  I can run the same command and 
I get the following results:
* I have 21 modules checked out.  Of those 21, I only have directories 
in my sandbox for 15 of those (where did those others go?  probably rm 
-r them at some point when I didn't need to work on them anymore)  Of 
the 15, I haven't touched 6 of them in close to a year, and in the last 
two months I've only even looked at 3.
* Someone who left the company almost 6 months ago has 8 modules checked 
out.
* One person only has 1 module checked out -- From March last year.
* No releases are ever done by anybody.

So, what info does cvs history -ao give you?  Basically that someone 
checked out a module for some reason at some point.  Does that give you 
the info you're looking for?  Maybe.  If so, I'd just setup a simple 
cron command:
'cvs history -ao > /var/www/html/cvscheckouts.txt'

But it doesn't tell me anything useful.

- Steve


Phil Labonte wrote:
> But you can see who has checked out files and when via the command line 
> so all I was looking for is something to add to apache... I guess I will 
> have to write my own perl script for cgi
>
>
> cvs -history -a -o shows all users and all checked out modules...
>
> Greg A. Woods wrote:
>
> > [ On Tuesday, January 13, 2004 at 09:25:52 (-0500), Phil Labonte wrote: ]
> >  
> >
> > > Subject: Re: A way to see who has checked out a module?
> > >
> > > I use ViewCVS as well but there is no option to see a log of checked 
> > > out files is there? If there is can you let me know where?
> > >   
> >
> >
> > Fundamentally there's really no such concept of "checked out files" in
> > CVS.  There is no "file locking" in CVS, so "checked out" does not mean
> > what I think you think it means.
> >
> > Any number of people can have any number of working directories checked
> > out on any number of clients.
> >
> > None of it really makes any difference to how anyone would know who's
> > really working on what.
> >
> > CVS is not a replacement for good project management.
> >
> >  
>
>
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