Re: Using CVS watch to track emacs changes (was: diffmon)

[Kim F. Storm]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

> On 26 Nov 2001, Kim F. Storm wrote:
> 
> > Isn't this what 'cvs watch add -a commit file...' is for ?
> 
> AFAIK, "cvs watch" requires people who commit use "cvs edit", which is 
> both an annoyance and prevents others from committing changes until you 
> say "cvs unedit" (what if you forget or your ISP dies?).

Not according to the CVS manual:

You can tell CVS that you want to receive notifications about various
actions taken on a file. You can do this without using `cvs watch on'
for the file ...

`cvs watch add [-a action] files...' 
Add the current user t the list of people to receive notifications of work done 
on files.

The -a ... commit: Another user has committed changes to a file