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Re: Another stupid question ...
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Max Bowsher |
Subject: |
Re: Another stupid question ... |
Date: |
Tue, 13 May 2003 11:19:31 +0100 |
David Whitehurst wrote:
> If I get cvs checkout <myproject> to work. Can others do the same?
Yes.
> And,
> does this mean that CVS "cares" who all has complete copies of the
projects
> or ... does it only count when any of us checkin?
There is no tracking of checkouts.
> I am a Visual SourceSafe
> guy and this is a little different.
>
> I want to have several developers use my CVS server. Can someone explain
> some scenarios? And, do we checkout everything to get a local copy to
begin
> to build
Yes.
> or can we just get a read only version and then checkout single
> files?
CVS simply does not use the concept of "reserved checkouts". Any conflicts
that may occur are resolved at checkin time, automatically unless they
overlap.
Max.