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==== Using watches with old versions of CVS ====

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If you use the watch features on a repository, it
creates &lsquo;<tt>CVS</tt>&rsquo; directories in the repository and
stores the information about watches in that directory.
If you attempt to use <small>CVS</small> 1.6 or earlier with the
repository, you get an error message such as the
following (all on one line):

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 cvs update: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading:
 No such file or directory
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and your operation will likely be aborted.  To use the
watch features, you must upgrade all copies of <small>CVS</small>
which use that repository in local or server mode.  If
you cannot upgrade, use the <code>watch off</code> and
<code>watch remove</code> commands to remove all watches, and
that will restore the repository to a state which
<small>CVS</small> 1.6 can cope with.

This document was generated on <i>a sunny day</i> using [http://www.nongnu.org/texi2html/ <i>texi2html</i>].
