[boost] Subversion (Was: Repository access and cvs watch)

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-08-31 06:21:50

David Abrahams wrote:

> Thomas Witt <witt_at_[hidden]> writes:
> 
>> Thomas Matelich wrote:
>>> On 8/30/05, Thomas Witt <witt_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Are you using cvs on the command line, or a GUI? WinCVS for example (and
>>> probably its brethren), defaults to checking out readonly. Its in the
>>> globals I think (not at my dev machine at the moment)
>>
>> I am using the commandline and cvs -w does not cut it either. And no I
>> don't have CVSREAD set. But yes there still might be something I missed.
> 
> You might look in the docs to see if there's something that can be set
> in your .cvsrc to change this.

I did try this, without success. Also, note that only few files in Boost
have watches on them, so this should not matter either.

But, I recall there were plans to switch to Subversion, which does not have
such problems (in addition to being vastly better that CVS in other
respect). What happened to those plans?

- Volodya