Re: Storing RTF documents in a code management system

Subject: Re: Storing RTF documents in a code management system
From: Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 17:10:26 -0700


dmbrown -at- brown-inc -dot- com <mailto:dmbrown -at- brown-inc -dot- com> wrote:

3) Controlling access of documents (which would really be a process
we might be able to use)


Nope. CVS is a revision control program; it is pointedly *not* an access control program. Its purpose is to *allow* several people to work on a file at the same time, not to prevent them. (For comparison, SourceSafe is an access control program--it prevents two people from working on the same file at the same time.)

Broadly speaking, this is correct, in the sense that CVS is designed primarily to work the way you describe.

However, you can use the -L or -l option with the admin command to limit access with CVS.

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Bruce Byfield bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com 604.421.7177



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