1<div id="Watches-Compatibility"></div> 2<div class="header"> 3<p> 4Previous: [[cvs: Information about who is watching and editing#Information about who is watching and editing|Watch information]], 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="Using-watches-with-old-versions-of-CVS"></div> 10==== Using watches with old versions of CVS ==== 11 12<div id="index-CVS-1_002e6_002c-and-watches"></div> 13If you use the watch features on a repository, it 14creates ‘<tt>CVS</tt>’ directories in the repository and 15stores the information about watches in that directory. 16If you attempt to use <small>CVS</small> 1.6 or earlier with the 17repository, you get an error message such as the 18following (all on one line): 19 20<div class="example" style="margin-left: 3.2em"> 21 cvs update: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading: 22 No such file or directory 23</div> 24 25and your operation will likely be aborted. To use the 26watch features, you must upgrade all copies of <small>CVS</small> 27which use that repository in local or server mode. If 28you cannot upgrade, use the <code>watch off</code> and 29<code>watch remove</code> commands to remove all watches, and 30that will restore the repository to a state which 31<small>CVS</small> 1.6 can cope with. 32 33This document was generated on <i>a sunny day</i> using [http://www.nongnu.org/texi2html/ <i>texi2html</i>]. 34