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RE: Merge vs Lock

From: Mark Shead <sheadm_at_optimalinternet.com>
Date: 2005-11-14 15:40:22 CET

Jonas,
 
Merging works well as long as people aren't making changes to the exact
same lines of the file. If this happens then the second developer to
submit a change will need to decide which version of that particular
line should be used. In most work environments you don't have
programmers trying to work on the same lines at the same time, so this
rarely happens as long as people are checkin in their changes and
updating frequently.
 
If you have people checking out the source and then working for two
weeks before updating or checking it back in, you may run into some
problems.
 
--Mark

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From: Datatal AB - Jonas Gauffin [mailto:jonas@datatal.se]
Sent: Monday, November 14, 2005 9:23 AM
To: users@subversion.tigris.org
Subject: Merge vs Lock

Hello

 

I'm an old SourceSafe user which has just installed SubVersion. SF uses
locking on files when checking out which I feel is safer than the merge
method. Or am I wrong? Do the merging work at all time? We are going to
use svn for our C++ projects.

 

Regards,

  Jonas
Received on Mon Nov 14 15:47:51 2005

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