Re: Up-to-date-check on commit.

On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 02:59:38PM -0500, Karl Fogel wrote:

> This method is the very heart of concurrent versioning, at least as
> implemented by CVS and Subversion. The situation you describe could
> happen, but in real life, Sam would check to make sure that the
> exported release works, and Bob and Joe would use a little common
> sense.

In real life people are not perfect (maybe you are, but I am
definitely _not_) and make mistakes purposeless. ;)

> If you haven't used CVS in a concurrent development environment much,
> you might not realize what a non-issue this is in practice (but I
> *would* suggest giving it a try before assuming the model doesn't
> work.. :-) ).

I am using CVS for 10 years now. Because of that I know that some
aspects of it are error prone. In real world errors happen when you
are in a hurry.

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-- Josef Wolf -- jw@raven.inka.de --
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