Greg Goodrich <ggoodrich@medinotes.com> writes:
> Why is it that prior to each commit I need to do an update/merge
> process? I can understand the necessity if there are conflicts, but
> this seems like a bit of a pain if the changes that happened are not
> in conflict with each other. It seems to me that if I change a file,
> I should be able to just commit it, and then if someone else had snuck
> a change in "under" me, that subversion would quietly merge the files
> together, and assuming no conflict, go about its business. Maybe I am
> being naive about this whole process, and I could certainly understand
> a different/additional message about an automatic merge happening so
> that I'm aware of it.
Because that would mean that no human had ever seen the resulting file
before it appeared in the repository. No one would ever have had a
file with all the changes -- each person would just have their own
changes.
I think you can see why that might be a bad situation :-).
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Received on Mon Oct 11 22:06:01 2004