| <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> |
| <html lang="en"> |
| <head> |
| |
| <meta name="copyright" content="Copyright (c) IBM Corporation and others 2000, 2005. This page is made available under license. For full details see the LEGAL in the documentation book that contains this page." > |
| |
| |
| <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" |
| content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> |
| |
| <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css"> |
| |
| <link rel="STYLESHEET" href="../book.css" charset="ISO-8859-1" |
| type="text/css"> |
| <title>CVS Watch/Edit</title> |
| |
| </head> |
| <body style="background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"> |
| <h1 class="Head"> Watch/Edit</h1> |
| |
| <p class="Para"> CVS provides a notification scheme which allows a group of developers |
| to know if somebody is working on a given file. This facility is known as <em>watches</em>. |
| By setting a <em>watch</em> on a file, you can have CVS notify you via email |
| if someone else starts to <em>edit</em> this file. This mechanism is notification |
| based only; the file is not locked in any way on the server, and several people |
| are allowed to edit the same file at the same time.</p> |
| <p class="Para">In addition to watch list notification, <em>edit</em> on its own |
| is useful for discovering if others are also editing that file. This is because |
| when you edit a file, you will be informed if someone else is already editing |
| it. </p> |
| <p class="Para">Normally with CVS clients, you would need to issue an explicit <em>edit</em>. |
| With Team CVS support however, an <em>edit</em> is |
| automatically issued by the client when you start to modify a file. In addition, |
| when <em>editing</em> a file, Team CVS provides you with the list of people |
| already editing a file. This allows you to find out who is working on a file |
| before you start to edit it.</p> |
| |
| <h3 class="related">Related concepts</h3> |
| <a href="concepts-26.htm">Team programming with CVS</a> |
| |
| <h3 class="related">Related tasks</h3> |
| <a href="../tasks/tasks-cvs-watch.htm">Finding out who's working on what: watch/edit</a> |
| |
| <h3 class="related">Related reference</h3> |
| <a href="../reference/ref-47.htm">CVS</a> |
| |
| </body> |
| </html> |
