Re: cvs edit

[Karl-König Königsson]

What is not clear is whether you mean that the common directory is on a 
client or on the server. Nor do you specify in which operation system 
environment you work. You mention "sudo" as a viable solution from which 
I assume that you are running your clients in a Unix environment.

It would be possible to set the sticky bit for a group on the top level 
on the shared structure. This would propagate the group ownership 
throughout the tree and with some clever fiddling with umask on top I 
suspect that you could get around this problem.

Cheers!

Karl-Koenig Koenigsson

Joseph Gubler wrote:

> We sometimes need to have several developers work in a
> common CVS working directory. We would like to use the
> 'cvs edit' functionality with 'cvs watch on', but have
> found that it is unable to change file ownership.
> Essentially, the user who checked out the working
> directory can use 'cvs edit' as intended, but no one
> else can.
>
> Is this how 'cvs edit' is designed to function, or
> does it sound like we have a CVS configuration
> problem? I am surprised to find that 'cvs edit' is
> unable to change file ownership, since other commands
> like 'cvs update' can do so, even if the invoking user
> does not own the file to begin with.
>
> If this is a feature and not a bug, can anyone suggest
> a work-around? I am considering the use of a sudo
> script that changes file ownership as needed and then
> calls 'cvs edit' to finish the job. 
>
> Any input will be appreciated.
>
> -Joe
>
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