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From: nicklin@hpcilzb.HP.COM (Peter Nicklin)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: RCS: Why only 1 checkout/file/user?
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Date: 27 Jun 90 22:31:24 GMT
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> / hpcilzb:comp.sources.d / rfinch@caldwr.water.ca.gov (Ralph Finch) /  1:47 pm  Jun 25, 1990 /

> I would like to chec kout, locked, more than 1 branch in an rcs file.

> 1) Is there any theoretical reason why rcs only permits a user to
> check a file out (locked) once?

RCS maintains a user:revision pair for each lock so that it knows where to
apply the next revision.

> Ralph Finch			916-445-0088
> rfinch@water.ca.gov		...ucbvax!ucdavis!caldwr!rfinch

Peter Nicklin  Hewlett-Packard  (408)553-2982  nicklin@dtc.hp.com