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(cvsbook.info)Ending An Editing Session

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Ending An Editing Session
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If you don't want to commit but want to explicitly end an editing
session, you can do so by running cvs unedit:

     paste$ cvs unedit hello.c

But beware!  This does more than just notify all watchers that you're
done editing - it also offers to revert any uncommitted changes that
you've made to the file:

     paste$ cvs unedit hello.c
     hello.c has been modified; revert changes? y
     paste$

If you answer `y', CVS undoes all your changes and notifies watchers
that you're not editing the file anymore.  If you answer `n', CVS keeps
your changes and also keeps you registered as an editor of the file (so
no notification goes out - in fact, it's as if you never ran
`cvs unedit' at all).  The possibility of CVS undoing all of your
changes at a single keystroke is a bit scary, but the rationale is easy
to understand: If you declare to the world that you're ending an
editing session, then any changes you haven't committed are probably
changes you don't mean to keep.  At least, that's the way CVS sees it.
Needless to say, be careful!