[cvsnt] Re: Cvsroot on network share

Tony Hoyle tony.hoyle at march-hare.com
Thu Sep 22 01:01:04 BST 2005


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Bo Berglund wrote:
>
> The server it is trying to connect to is the *lockserver* service.
> This is a part of CVSNT that is obviously not running since you don't
> run a CVS server either. For local access obviously it must not be
> used. But for this to happen it must be configured in the
> CVSROOT/config file *not* to use the lockserver in this case.
> You have to edit the proper entry there to switch to file based locks.
>
Won't work.

File based locks for Win32 are *not* compatible with file based locks on 
Linux.

The naming format is different (includes the username, as you can't 
derive that from the file easily on Win32).

Also on the first checkin the cvsnt client will rewrite the RCS file 
with its own extensions, which will (probably) upset all the other 
clients - a prerequisite of using network shares - if they're used at 
all - is that all servers accessing the repository are the same version.

For multiplatform work a server is absolutely essential.

Tony



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