Re: How to find out who all have checked out a particular file

[Andrew Johnson]

Shyam L wrote:
> 
> In CVS, if I want to find out who all have checked out a particular
> file, is there a way to do it? I guess not. Does anybody know of any
> workaround if I want to enforce this, may be writing some wrappers?

If there is a file called history in your $CVSROOT/CVSROOT directory, this
contains the information you want.  If there isn't then you can create
such a file and all checkins and checkouts will be recorded in it (but it
does grow if you have a busy repository so keep an eye on it and prune it
occasionally).  I don't know if the format is documented anywhere, but
it's not that hard to work out - a U in the first column means a checkout
or update.

- Andrew
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