Subj : CVS Checkout Lock
To   : comp.programming
From : cholcomb
Date : Tue Aug 16 2005 06:15 pm

I am somewhat new to cvs and trying to set it up for a project. The
project manager wants to have it set up so that when you check out a
file it locks the file so noone else can check it out till you release
the file.

>From what research I have done I can not fine out how to do this and
suspect it is not possible.

My experince is the admin -L feature locks the file for checkin not
checkout.

Can anyone confirm that locking for checkout is not possible or tell me
how to set it up.

The cvs server is on freebsd and using wincvs on xp to get to the
server.

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