[cvsnt] Non-watched/Read-only Sandbox Files

David Hauck davidh at netacquire.com
Thu Oct 20 16:22:25 BST 2005


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Hi Richard,

> For reasons that have never been clear to me, Tortoise seems always to
> Add files with watch mode on.  And doesn't appear to have a control for
> this.  I always seem to have to turn it off to stop everything getting
> set read-only after being Committed.

That's good to know (although odd!). We generally don't use Tortoise (some
of our users do) though.

Thanks, -David

> cvs watch off <filename>
>
> Where <filename> can be one file, or several, or a directory, or tree.
>
> Unhelpfully,
> Richard.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org [mailto:cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org] On Behalf
> Of Tony Hoyle
> Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 3:49 PM
> To: cvsnt at cvsnt.org cvsnt downloads at march-hare.com @CVSNT on Twitter CVSNT on Facebook
> Subject: Re: [cvsnt] Non-watched/Read-only Sandbox Files
>
> David Hauck wrote:
> > Hi Tony,
> >
> >
> >>David Hauck wrote:
> >>
> >>>Hi Tony, just wondering if I could sneak a comment from you regarding
>
> >>>my question below. Do you have a few moments to consider this? BTW,
> >>>our platform is Win2K (client/server).
> >>
> >>No idea.  The only files that will get checked out read only are those
>
> >>that are watched, and those marked with -kx for exclusive editing.
> >
> >
> > Geesh, that's really weird (btw this happens with update as well for
> > these files)! Is there anything else I enable/engage to help diagnose
> > why this is happening?
> >
> Assuming you've tried checking 'cvs editors'.. tracing the server (cvs
> -ttt) might give some clue.
>
> Tony
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