6.6.2. Telling CVS to notify you

cvs watch add [-a action] [-l] files ... -- Command

Add the current user to the list of people to receive notification of work done on files.

The -a option specifies what kinds of events CVS should notify the user about. action is one of the following:

edit

Another user has applied the cvs edit command (described below) to a file.

unedit

Another user has applied the cvs unedit command (described below) or the cvs release command to a file, or has deleted the file and allowed cvs update to recreate it.

commit

Another user has committed changes to a file.

all

All of the above.

none

None of the above. (This is useful with cvs edit, described below.)

The -a option may appear more than once, or not at all. If omitted, the action defaults to all.

The files and -l option are processed as for the cvs watch commands.

cvs watch remove [-a action] [-l] files ... -- Command

Remove a notification request established using cvs watch add; the arguments are the same. If the -a option is present, only watches for the specified actions are removed.

Note that if you set this up in the straightforward way, users receive notifications on the server machine. One could of course write a notify script which directed notifications elsewhere, but to make this easy, cvs allows you to associate a notification address for each user. To do so create a file users in CVSROOT with a line for each user in the format user:value. Then instead of passing the name of the user to be notified to notify, cvs will pass the value (normally an email address on some other machine).