Re: problems with the cvs edit command

[Noel Yap]

--- Reagan Penner <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello, I am new to the cvs edit command so please
> bear with me. From
> what I understand more than one user should be able
> to tag the same
> file for editing.
> 
> My problem is that when user X applies cvs edit
> against a file, all
> files within the current directory become locked to
> cvs edit. Meaning
> that if X has file1 tagged for editing then user Y
> can't tag any files
> in file1's directory for editing.
> 
> Here is a copy of the cvs command error output:
> cvs edit: cannot write
> /blah/projX/cvs/package_path/CVS/fileattr:
> Permission denied
> 
> this only happens if someone other than the original
> issuer of the cvs
> edit command tries to apply cvs edit to another file
> in the same
> directory.

This looks like a permissions problem rather than a
CVS problem.  My guess is that user X has a
restrictive umask setting.  This is fine for things
user X doesn't want to share, but by definition, stuff
in CVS is shared.  To solve this, have user X set the
environment variable CVSUMASK to 007.

Hope this helps,
Noel


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