[cvsnt] Enforcing Reserved Edits

Harrison, Andrew andy.harrison at anite.com
Fri Jun 11 16:39:22 BST 2004


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Last month there was some discussion on the dev list about enforcing
reserved edits on a file by file basis (cvs admin -kc). Did this ever get
anywhere, and is it likely to get into the 2.0.x builds?

Basically I want to ensure that no-one can commit to a file unless they have
a reserved edit on it, and so ensure that only one person is editing a file
at any one time. This only needs to be enforced on certain files at certain
points during the development cycle. For the rest of the time it's ok to
have multiple developers working on the same code and handling
merges/conflict as they happen.

I was going to just make people use commit -c, but having tried it out I
have a couple of problems. Firstly it's easy for people to forget to put the
-c, so it commits anyway, and secondly they can just do an (not reserved)
edit anyway. In fact the only thing the reserved edit seems to stop anyone
else doing is another reserved edit.

Will the proposed admin -kc help with this, or is there some other way of
doing it?

Regards,
Andy

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