[news.eclipse.tools] Re: eclipse and CVS

[Michael Valenta <Michael_Valenta@xxxxxxx>]

Daniel,

Typically, it is the server that is configured to provide a particular 
module as read-only (locked). One solution is to configure the server to 
provide the modules as writable (obviously not a viable solution if your 
organization's policy says modules are to be checked read-only). The 
other soultion is to perform a  "cvs edit" on the project or the 
resources that are to be edited (a third option is to make the local 
files writable manually but this is not desirable since other will not 
get notification through the "cvs watch" mechanism).

Unfortunately, Eclipse 2.0.1 does not support cvs watch/edit. There is 
currently no facility in Eclipse to do this. However, the directories 
checked out using Eclipse are CVS command line compatible so you should 
be able to use the command line client to perform a "cvs edit" (but you 
must be using either the pserver or ext connection methods. extssh is 
not compatible with the command line client).

Michael

Daniel Brozek wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> How should I make Eclipse (2.0.1) to not lock the module during checkout 
> operation from CVS?
>
> Thank you,