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RE: Re: [RFE] Update before commit

From: Kenneth Wood <kenneth.wood_at_e2open.com>
Date: 2007-02-14 18:43:24 CET

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Andy Levy [mailto:andy.levy@gmail.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 11:37 AM
>To: lightbulb432
>Cc: users@subversion.tigris.org
>Subject: Re: [RFE] Update before commit
>
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>On 2/14/07, lightbulb432 <veerukrishnan@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> So it's only refused when a change happens to a file that you've
>> changed? If somebody changes a different file in the repository (but
>> that still has dependencies with the file you've changed),
>the code in
>> the repository could still break, right, even though the commit is
>> accepted?
>>
>> Any strategies for resolving such a case to ensure the repository
>> contains a fully functioning code base, or is this a usual
>part of the
>> development process?
>>
>> (e.g. Any way of declaring a dependency of one file on
>another so that
>> you can't commit a file without first resolving conflicts
>not only in
>> that file itself, but in files you've declared that it
>depends on. If
>> not, any thoughts about this as a feature request?)
>
>Subversion has no concept of inter-file dependencies. Sounds
>more like the responsibility of a build system or development
>environment, not a version control system.

Same with ClearCase UCM, for example - it doesn't know that
file A depends on file B for compilation... that's why
in cleacase UCM one does a rebase, build, test before deliver...
equivalent to svn update, build, test, and commit...

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