Re: CVS edit/unedit commanda

[time@ice.com]

> Perhaps this reflects a misunderstanding on our part about the meaning of
> checkout and release vs edit and unedit.

There are indeed a few places where jCVS is confusing to those familiar
with the command line client. This is good from my point of view. :)
However, it is not good if these items are not well documented, so it
is clear I should devote a little more manual to this issue.

> On our Unix system with command line interface, checkout brings a copy of a
> file or directory over to a working directory, but leaves it marked as
> read-only.  One needs to issue to "edit" command before being able to do
> anything to the file.  "Unedit" abandons an editing session and marks the
> file read-only again.

There is a problem with using Java in that there is no mechanism to set
file permissions. Further, file permissions are not consistent across
all platforms. Thus, I have so far punted on this particular problem.

However, it has been suggested (more than once actually :) that I provide
a property that allows UNIX (and others when possible) users to define a
system command (aka "chmod" ) that can be exec-ed to accomplish the effect.

I am now strongly leaning towards adding this feature, since it is now
appearing that Java 1.2 will be of little help in this regard.

> After a little experimenting with jCVS, it seems that either you have a
> different model or that our model was incorrect.  I cannot see that the
> Monitor>Edit and Monitor>Unedit commands in jCVS actually do anything.
> Nothing in the status of the file changes, the permissions on the file
> don't change, no visible indication appears in the project window, etc.  Or
> are we missing something?

I believe that what is causing your confusion is that Edit and UnEdit 
do not immediately connect to the server. This is done to accommodate
offline operation. Whenever you use Edit or Unedit, the commands will
be sent the next time that you connect. If you do not wish to wait until
then, use the "Monitor -> Send Notifications" command, which will cause
jCVS to connect to the server and send the notifications.

tim.
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