Description MH 2002-11-01 04:40:03 EST

i'm about to introduce Eclipse to my fellow collegues and of course the 
integerated CVS support of Eclipse is used. now, one thing about CVS is rather 
strange for developers who are confident with resource systems like Visual 
Source Safe: they think of "check out" => this file is mine and i can do 
changes to it. after changing, i check it in and anybody else can update it. in 
CVS, the default behaviour is different, it uses this "optimistic reservation" 
where collisions are tried to be "merged". the bad thing about this is, if it 
can't be merged, all develeopers that changed the file need to come together to 
fix this problem. fortunately, CVS has also the feature of "reserved edit" of 
files that basically does the same as i described here. i miss the support of 
this featuer in Eclipse CVS. i would love to see a preferences setting 
like "check out reserved" via a check box. this would get/update the files in 
read only mode and each file would have a context menu item Team > Check Out 
that gets the latest version in read write mode and do a reserved edit in CVS 
(which means the file is locked by this user). after doing a Team > Check In, 
the file would be updated and unlocked in CVS and made read only on the local 
computer. of course, a nice read little CVS icon for checked out files would be 
nice ;-)

is this a possible feature we can count on in (one of) the next releases?