To enable the watch features, you first specify that certain files are to be watched.
-lR
] [files]...Specify that developers should run
cvs edit
before editing files. cvs will create working copies of files read-only, to remind developers to run thecvs edit
command before working on them.If files includes the name of a directory, cvs arranges to watch all files added to the corresponding repository directory, and sets a default for files added in the future; this allows the user to set notification policies on a per-directory basis. The contents of the directory are processed recursively, unless the
-l
option is given. The-R
option can be used to force recursion if the-l
option is set in ~/.cvsrc (see ~/.cvsrc).If files is omitted, it defaults to the current directory.