[H-GEN] F-king CVS!

[Raymond Smith]

(Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs Raymond Smith <raymonds at uq.net.au>)

On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Marshall, Joshua wrote:
> Yes, it is normal that the ,v files are read-only.  The locking is set in
> the ,v files themselves.

Gottcha.
 
> To unlock file 6521.C:
> 
> cvs admin -u 6521.C 
> 
> OR edit the "locks" line out and the line below it.

Gottcha.

It turns out that somehow a file has been removed from the repository and
when we run a recursive unlock through the whole module cvs dies when it
can't find this file. Naturally, this file is one of the first in the
whole tree :-).

I am wondering why CVS is held up as such a great version control system.
I have had a great many problems with branches and tags (perhaps Jason
could enlighten me?). Someone, I think it might have been Andrae, was
saying that they tried CVS with Linux but found it to be a poor choice.

Any comments? Is there anyone on the list using CVS for large projects?

Raymond

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