Name
edit — Synonyms: none
Synopsis
cvs [cvs-options
] edit [-lR] [-aaction
...] [files
...]
Marks a file as being edited by the current user.
See also editors
, unedit
,
watch
, and watchers.
Command options
-
-a action
Notify the user when the specified
action
occurs to the file. This setting acts as a temporary watch (seewatch
) on the file and is removed when the file is no longer being edited. Each-a
designates one of the possible actions. The-a
option can be repeated to designate multiple actions.The action may be any of the following:
-
edit
Notify the user if someone else has run
cvs edit
on the file.-
unedit
Notify the user when the file is no longer being edited by someone else. This notification is triggered by the user running
cvs unedit
orcvs release
or by the file being deleted and recreated withcvs update
orcvs checkout
.-
commit
Notify the user when someone else commits changes to the file.
-
all
Notify the user of all of the previous actions.
-
none
Notify the user of none of the previous actions.
-
-
-l
Run
edit
on files in the local directory only. (Do not recurse down subdirectories.)See also
-R
.-
-R
Run
edit
on files in the local directory and all subdirectories and recurse down the subdirectories. This option is the default.See also
-l
.
Description
The cvs edit
command is used as part of the
cvs watch
family of commands. If a file is being
watched, it is checked out to the sandbox with read permissions but
not write permissions. The edit command sets the sandbox file as writable, ...
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