[cvsnt] Re: How to set unreserved checkout for binary files

Torsten Martinsen torsten at tiscali.dk
Tue May 17 21:10:04 BST 2005


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Oliver Giesen wrote:

>Edits are concurrent by default as far as CVSNT is concerned. It's
>Tortoise that auto-enforces the reserved edits on binary files (there's
>an option somewhere in the settings for that). 
>
Actually there is no such setting - edits on binary files are always 
restricted.

>However, as Bo already
>noted, that's not a bad thing as such as you effectively wouldn't be
>able to do any concurrent editing anyway. Instead of letting the client
>enforce this I would however recommend to use the -kc (or rather -kbc)
>flag on those files instead, 
>
Indeed, this is what newer TortoiseCVS versions do if the server runs a 
recent version of CVSNT.

-Torsten



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