Hi, AFAICT there is currently no way to make cvs provide writable files when checking out/updating the boost repository. This causes me some grief and I might not be the only one out there. After reading the CVS manual (well the watch part) I have concluded that this is due to the fact that somebody issued a recursive 'cvs watch on' on the boost tree. AFAICS this has not been discussed on the mailing list. This forces a certain usage of cvs on everybody else. I.e. the users have to use 'cvs edit' (or fiddle with file permissions). For now I am strongly opposed to this way of using cvs. In my experience the use of 'cvs edit' does not provide significant benefit while it adds significant overhead to my work. Most users will change the permissions locally and not bother with cvs edit anyway. If there is anybody out there who has different experiences I would be very interested to hear about them. I therefore propose to turn cvs watch off thus giving the user a choice whether she wants read-only or read-write files. Please note that this does not disable the watching of files in general. Every user still can use cvs watch add to watch files and is still guaranteed to get notified about the really interesting events (i.e. those that alter a file in the repository). What did I miss? What do you think? Thomas