Re: CVS list files in repository which are currently in checked out status

Risman, Mark wrote, On 08/18/2009 11:05 AM:
> Rupa,
> 
> You can scan the history file to see what files have ever been checked
> out, but that won't tell you whether the users still have those files
> that were checked out. This is because there is no opposite, or end, of
> a checkout command. 
> 

Not _quite_ true.
Although you don't have to, and I most times don't, there is the cvs command:
  `cvs release  oldtree`
  (or if you like getting rid of the tree if there are no _CVS_ _detectable_ differences between 
sandbox and tree...)
  `cvs release  -d oldtree`
which a user might use instead of `rm -r oldtree`.

the manual indicates that:
"
This command is meant to safely cancel the effect of ‘cvs checkout’. ...
This command checks that no uncommitted changes are present; that you are executing it from 
immediately above a CVS working directory; and that the repository recorded for your files is the 
same as the repository defined in the module database.

If all these conditions are true, ‘cvs release’ leaves a record of its execution (attesting to your 
intentionally abandoning your checkout) in the CVS history log.
"

just don't confuse it with cvs remove which has a QUITE different effect. (part of the reason I 
don't use release often.)

> It's similar to looking at an .html web page which was looked at by a
> web browser. You might have an access log on the web server that tells
> when the user accessed that page, but you can't tell if they still have
> it open. A CVS checkout is a bit like a download in that regard.
> 

I agree with this analogy in the normal use case, however it does not have to be.

> - Mark
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> RupaL
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> Subject: CVS list files in repository which are currently in checked out
> status
> 
> 
> Hi,
> Is there a command or a way or a tools/script to list the files which
> have
> been checked out from the repository , i.e. list files which are
> currently
> checked out by various users. Doing this is useful before doing a build
> 
> Regards,
> Rupa


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