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### Telling CVS to watch certain files

To enable the watch features, you first specify that certain files are to be watched.

Command: cvs watch on [`-l`] files ...

  Specify that developers should run `cvs edit` before editing files. CVS will create working copies of files read-only, to remind developers to run the `cvs edit` command before working on them.

  If files includes the name of a directory, CVS arranges to watch all files added to the corresponding repository directory, and sets a default for files added in the future; this allows the user to set notification policies on a per-directory basis. The contents of the directory are processed recursively, unless the `-l` option is given.

  If files is omitted, it defaults to the current directory.

Command: cvs watch off [`-l`] files ...

  Do not provide notification about work on files. CVS will create working copies of files read-write.

  The files and `-l` arguments are processed as for `cvs watch on`.

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