July 2005
Intermediate to advanced
944 pages
158h 24m
English
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Linux in a Nutshell, Fifth Edition
by Ellen Siever, Aaron Weber, Stephen Figgins, Robert Love, Arnold Robbins
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version
cvs [cvs-options] version
Display the version information for the current installation of CVS.
Synonyms: ve, ver
Example
$ cvs version
Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.11.15 (client/server)
watch
cvs [cvs-options] watch command [options] [files ...]
Set files to be watched, or add users to the file-watch list. Users
who are watching a file are notified via the script in the notify file in
the repository’s CVSROOT directory when other users perform
specific actions. Essential CVS (O’Reilly) explains uses of the cvs
watch family of commands. See also edit, editors, unedit, and
watchers.
CVS does not notify you of your own changes.
Synonyms: none
Standard subcommand options: -l, -R
Commands
on and off
The on and off subcommands control whether the file or files
are marked as being watched. If a file is marked as being
watched, CVS sets it as read-only when it is checked out of the
repository. Without this read-only setting, developers might
forget to use cvs edit when editing a file.
If the argument is a directory, all current files in the directory
and all new files added to that directory in the future are set as
being watched.
The on and off subcommands set whether a file is watchable,
but they do not set who is watching it; the add and remove
subcommands set whether or not ...
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