Re: Lock files preventing tagging ?

[Derek R. Price]

Shubhabrata Sengupta wrote:

> Does CVS not operate on the ,v files directly. Or does
> it create RCS files and then renames them to the
> corresponding ,v files.

It creates lock files which are really temporary RCS files then moves
those over the original file when done.

Derek

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