CVS and reserved checkouts

This page concerns various ways to enhance CVS's handling of (optional) reserved checkouts, with a focus on proposed changes to CVS. We also have a user-level page which introduces the subject and suggests what one can do with a vanilla CVS.

Here is a patch from Eric Griswold for reserved checkouts.

Along the same lines, one suggestion that crops up is having "cvs edit" give a warning if someone else is already editing the file.

There is a somewhat detailed design for a reserved checkout feature in comments in cvs.texinfo in the CVS source distribution (node "Multiple developers"). Because this is in comments, you need to get cvs.texinfo itself, rather than one of the formatted versions of this manual.