Forum OpenACS Q&A: locking cvs

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1: locking cvs
Posted by Simon Buckle on 09/02/02 12:42 PM
How do I "lock" CVS? Basically I want to prevent developers from
adding, committing files etc while I backup the repository. Any thoughts?

thanks

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2: Response to locking cvs (response to 1)
Posted by Ken Mayer on 09/02/02 06:13 PM
CVS doesn't use "locking" per se, but you can access the underlying RCS locking through the "cvs admin" function. RTFM about cvs admin -l and -L. If users are accessing the repository remotely via pserver, then the simple, brute force way is to turn off cvspserver in inetd.conf.
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3: Response to locking cvs (response to 1)
Posted by Andrew Piskorski on 09/03/02 09:38 PM
The simplest way is probably just to chmod the files in the CVS repository. I haven't tried that personally, but it should work. There are other ways. See also Backing up a repository in the Cederqvist. Possibly CVS admin as well, as Ken mentioned above.