Using CVS Watches
CVS integration of PyCharm helps coordinate the activities of team members, who concurrently work on the same files or directories.
CVS watches enable you to notify the users of a CVS repository whenever a file has been opened for editing, or committed. If you watch a file or directory for changes and commits, you are added to the list of watchers.
Usage the commands related to watches depends on configuration of the $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/notify file.
Edit and Unedit commands change read-only status
of the files or directories under CVS. If the sources were checked out with the option
-c, you can apply Edit command to make them writable. In
this case you are added to the list of editors. When you are done with editing, use
Unedit command to restore read-only status. So doing, you are removed from
the list of editors. If watching is configured, the watchers will receive email notification about these
events.
In fact, the option Use read-only flag for not edited files in the CVS provides the same functionality automatically. If this option is checked, Unedit always applies to the source files after commit.
Edit and Watch commands apply to all the files you have selected in the current view (including all the files in any selected directory), or to the current file in the editor if you invoked the command there.
This section describes how to:
- Access Edit and Watch commands
- Change read-only status of a file or directory
- View the other persons who edit the same file or directory
- Set watch on a certain event for a file or directory and thus add yourself to the list of wanchers
- Enable or disable watching
- View the other persons who watch the same file or directory
To access Edit and Watch commands
- In one of the tool windows, select the desired files or directories, or open a file in the editor.
- Do one of the following:
- On the main menu, choose
- On the context menu, choose
To get write access to a file or directory
- Open Edit and Watch menu.
- Choose on the submenu. Edit Options dialog box is displayed.
- If you want to gain exclusive write access, check the option Reserved edit (-c). Click OK.
To restore read-only status of a file or directory
- Open Edit and Watch menu.
- Choose on the submenu.
To view the other persons who edit the same file or directory
- Open Edit and Watch menu.
- Choose on the submenu. This will display the list of all users who have run the Edit command on the same file or directory.
To set watch on a file or directory
- Open Edit and Watch menu.
- Choose on the submenu.
- In the dialog box that opens, select the type of action you would like to be notified about:
- Edit: you will notified whenever Edit is applied to a watched file or directory.
- Unedit: you will notified whenever Unedit is applied to a watched file or directory.
- Commit: you will notified whenever Commit is applied to a watched file or directory.
- All: you will notified whenever any of the above commands is applied to a watched file or directory.
To remove watch from a file or directory
- Open Edit and Watch menu.
- Choose on the submenu.
- In the dialog box that opens, select the type of action for which you would like to skip notification (Edit, Unedit, Commit or All).
To suspend or resume watching
- Open Edit and Watch menu.
- Choose or on the submenu.
To view the list of users who are watching the same files or directories
- Open Edit and Watch menu.
- Choose on the submenu.