I have a project that is maintained using CVS in PHPEd. Everything has been working exactly as expected until recently. Normally, all files maintained by CVS are locked for modification (and display a lock icon) until the user chooses to edit them. A few days ago, however, I opened PHPEd and all of my files were unlocked.

I tried unediting those files, but the lock icon does not appear, and the files are still editable.

I tried making simple changes to the files, and then committing them, which did reinstate the lock. But, this is a painful process for over 200 files. (Doing a commit without changing anything had no effect.)

I know that the simple solution is to delete the local CVS repository, and then check it out again, but I am wondering why this happened. Has it happened to anyone else?

Thanks,

-Nate

Removing the read only attribute of files under cvs control will remove the lock icon in Tortoise CVS.
You can set them back as uneditable by setting them read only again.