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| PieterV |
 Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 10:56 pm Post subject: CVS & Toolkit: checkout not working |
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Hello,
first of all, we don't have much experience with CVS.
We have installed CVS on a Unix (solaris) platform, version 1.11.20.
We have Message Broker Toolkit 6 with the latest fix packs.
We can share projects in the CVS repository and are able to commit updates, receive updates etc, but:
Problem: checkout doesnt seem to work.
My idea of checkout is that the project becomes inaccesible to all other users except the one who did check out.
But when we press checkout, he asks to copy the project to the local workspace and after that all apears the same as before.
You can still access the project, no 'Check In' option appears, etc.
Is this normal behaviour of CVS and the toolkit?
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| jefflowrey |
| Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 1:37 am Post subject: |
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CVS doesn't perform exclusive checkouts.
It's an entirely different model. It is the job of each individual developer, before they check in, to synchronize their local code with the repository and unit test everything to make sure that it still works.
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| PieterV |
| Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 1:50 am Post subject: |
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ok,
but you mention: "before they check in",
what do you mean by that? I don't see an option "check in", only "check out" and "check out as".
In this situation i can imagine that 2 developers are working on 1 flow and that the changes that the first makes undoes the changes made by the other.
Even if they make a version of their changes, you don't know what version you must use.
If this is the case, i don't see the advantage of CVS. (the only one is that you can save your projects to a central repository). |
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| wschutz |
| Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 1:56 am Post subject: |
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Google returns quite a few hits on" "CVS primer" .....
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| PieterV |
| Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 3:56 am Post subject: |
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ok,
so it's not possible with CVS to reserve a project/file to 1 particular user.
has anybody experience with another tool, let's say Team Foundation Server?
If i read their documentation, it apears to be possible to check out and check in files/projects.
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| jefflowrey |
| Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 4:23 am Post subject: |
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In fact, CVS is philosophically AGAINST reserving a project/file to one particular user.
And is the version control system used by some of the largest development projects in the world.
There are many version control tools that are compatible with the MBT - anything that supplies Eclipse plugins for the right level of Eclipse should work fine.
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