1<div id="Setting-a-watch"></div> 2<div class="header"> 3<p> 4Next: [[cvs: Telling CVS to notify you#Telling CVS to notify you|Getting Notified]], Up: [[cvs: Mechanisms to track who is editing files#Mechanisms to track who is editing files|Watches]] |[[cvs: Index#SEC_Contents|Contents]]||[[cvs: Index#Index|Index]]|</p> 5</div> 6 7---- 8 9<div id="Telling-CVS-to-watch-certain-files"></div> 10==== Telling CVS to watch certain files ==== 11 12To enable the watch features, you first specify that 13certain files are to be watched. 14 15<div id="index-watch-on-_0028subcommand_0029"></div> 16;<div id="index-cvs-watch-on"></div>Command<nowiki>:</nowiki> <strong>cvs watch on</strong><em> <nowiki>[</nowiki><code>-lR</code><nowiki>]</nowiki> <nowiki>[</nowiki><var>files</var><nowiki>]</nowiki>…</em> 17 18<div id="index-Read_002donly-files_002c-and-watches"></div> 19: Specify that developers should run <code>cvs edit</code> before editing <var>files</var>. <small>CVS</small> will create working copies of <var>files</var> read-only, to remind developers to run the <code>cvs edit</code> command before working on them. 20 21: If <var>files</var> includes the name of a directory, <small>CVS</small> arranges to watch all files added to the corresponding repository directory, and sets a default for files added in the future; this allows the user to set notification policies on a per-directory basis. The contents of the directory are processed recursively, unless the <code>-l</code> option is given. The <code>-R</code> option can be used to force recursion if the <code>-l</code> option is set in ‘<tt>~/.cvsrc</tt>’ (see [[cvs: Default options and the ~%47.cvsrc file#Default options and the ~/.cvsrc file|~/.cvsrc]]). 22 23: If <var>files</var> is omitted, it defaults to the current directory. 24 25<div id="index-watch-off-_0028subcommand_0029"></div> 26 27;<div id="index-cvs-watch-off"></div>Command<nowiki>:</nowiki> <strong>cvs watch off</strong><em> <nowiki>[</nowiki><code>-lR</code><nowiki>]</nowiki> <nowiki>[</nowiki><var>files</var><nowiki>]</nowiki>…</em> 28 29: Do not create <var>files</var> read-only on checkout; thus, developers will not be reminded to use <code>cvs edit</code> and <code>cvs unedit</code>. 30 31: The <var>files</var> and options are processed as for <code>cvs watch on</code>. 32 33 34This document was generated on <i>a sunny day</i> using [http://www.nongnu.org/texi2html/ <i>texi2html</i>]. 35