From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,791530e499e6a7f9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Ted Dennison Subject: Re: ada writing guide Date: 2000/04/21 Message-ID: <38FFD43E.70F1BB7D@telepath.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 613826345 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <8d1rso$bir$2@bunyip.cc.uq.edu.au> <8d1vhj$hdr$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8d2hig$7e6$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <38F5DF8C.1A01E5A4@utech.net> <8d4t07$o15$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <38F603FE.B0C3ED83@utech.net> <8d5dsc$c27$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8d6hjn$j9p$1@clnews.edf.fr> <8d76vj$9jt$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8d7uak$1d1$1@wanadoo.fr> <8dfd6q$uch$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <87em84vavt.fsf@deneb.cygnus.argh.org> <8dfpj7$crs$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <38FF1D6B.4120AF7B@Raytheon.com> <38FF4D28.8F946BDA@telepath.com> <8do6q2$oli$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Accept-Language: en,pdf Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: Abuse Role , We Care X-Trace: newshog.newsread.com 956289792 216.14.8.42 (Fri, 21 Apr 2000 00:03:12 EDT) Organization: Telepath Systems (telepath.com) MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 00:03:12 EDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-04-21T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Robert Dewar wrote: > Ted, I think you missed my point :-) I will say again, that > this kind of mistake is COMPLETELY IMPOSSIBLE for my working > environment. Why, because every time I check something in, I > carefully verify that the changes I am making are exactly as > I expect them to be. I find any system which does not involve Ahh, you're right, I didn't catch that part before. So you are saying you always do a diff and visually inspect the report prior to doing a checkin? That would indeed catch the problem. It wouldn't *prevent* the problem, but it would catch it before you hose the baseline. The removal of an item would stick out like a sore thumb on a diff. Personally, I'd prefer to see the problem prevented than caught though. Remember that my complaint was that it can happen in the first place, not that its impossible to catch. > such careful double checks to be seriously flawed. I also > carefully watch version numbers and double check BEFORE the > checkin that the version number is what I expect. Again, version number cheking wouldn't help in this situation (assuming cvs). CVS would think your version number is as it should be. Or are you talking about embedding version a CVS version code in the exception file? I guess you could do that, if it isn't the first thing on a line. -- T.E.D. Home - mailto:dennison@telepath.com Work - mailto:dennison@ssd.fsi.com WWW - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html ICQ - 10545591