Feedback if using CVS with windows for asp files

[Katie]

Hi,

I need a code versioning system and was considering CVS. I would like
some feedback if you are using CVS (wincvs or tortoise etc) and if you
are satisfied with it. One thing i havent been able to find too much
documentation on and is one of my major concerns is permissions. If i
install cvs can i assign access to certain files in the project to
certain windows users. For example if my web application has page1.asp
page2.asp and page3.asp and i would like user newbie to only access and
modify page1.asp?

Thanks for ure time and comments

 

[Katie]

So would the windows files and folder permissions be automatically be
used?
If i had CVS on the server and newbie didnt have access to that file,
when newbie logged into the server and tried to checkout a file1.asp
which he didnot have permissions on windows to access, CVS would not
allow him to either as it would skip that file? I thought cvs made temp
copies of the files for checkout so wouldnt that bypass the permissions
set on the original file/folder?

I need a code versioning system and was considering CVS. I would like
some feedback if you are using CVS (wincvs or tortoise etc) and if you
are satisfied with it.

We use it. It's functional, but has known limitations that are addressed
by Subversion[1]. I would suggest using that for any new projects. There
is a variant of Tortoise called TortoiseSVN[2] which supports it.

One thing i havent been able to find too much documentation on and is
one of my major concerns is permissions. If i install cvs can i assign
access to certain files in the project to certain windows users.

CVS usually just relies on the file system permissions to handle this. If
it can't read a file in the repository, it just skips it.

[1] Subversion Project Home
http://subversion.tigris.org/
[2] TortoiseSVN
http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/