Re: Tortoise CVS - Files not set read-only on checkout

Hi Mike,

> Thanks for the quick response, I've upgraded our Windows CVS 
> Server to 2.5.04 (Zen) Build 3510 and re-run test using 
> TortoiseCVS 1.10.10.  As expected, the test failed, I say as 
> expected as the email from Torsten implies that it won't work 
> unless the version of Tortoise is built with #define 
> MARCH_HARE_BUILD set. 

I think you misunderstood Tortsten's comments - the TortoiseCVS you are
using was downloaded from march-hare.com and already has
MARCH_HARE_BUILD set, if it wasn't set then that option would not be
available at all.

> Before looking into obtaining a copy of Tortoise compiled 
> with this setting, I asked my colleague Alan Dunkley to 
> perform a similar test using a Linux Client. Issuing the 
> following commands to a Linux server worked fine, e.g. 
> test.txt was read-only. However issuing the same commands to 
> a Windows CVS server resulted in test.txt being read-write.
> 
> mkdir test1 test2
> cd test1
> cvs checkout cvs-test
> cd cvs-test
> cvs watch on test.txt
> cd ../../
> cd test2
> cvs checkout cvs-test
> ls -l cvs-test

Yes - please re-read my post to the TortoiseCVS newsgroup last week.  If
you want to obtain this behaviour we recommend using kx.  I believe that
2.5.04 requires 'cvs watch ro' to distinguish between a watch and a read
only watch, but the 'free' release doesn't issue this properly.  
https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=946E76E38BC1E24
48B68F32FAEA2BA58728D20%402ksrvr01.march-hare.local
And
http://www.cvsnt.org/manual/html/Watches.html

March Hare supply a commercial product which is tested and this feature
works, and we also supply a gratis product which is not tested and may
or may not work (both products are free but the commercial one you have
to pay for).  The Free Software Foundation have gone some way to
clarifying the expected price of free software (more than non-free
software) and in the next few weeks we'll be updating all our downloads
so finally people will be able to download true 'evaluation' copies of
the qa-commercial versions....
http://cvsnt.org/pipermail/cvsnt/2009-September/032349.html

Regards,


Arthur Barrett

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