From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Subject: Re: Configuration Management for Ada on Unix
Date: 1996/05/31
Date: 1996-05-31T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4omf1q$jaq@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4olq5p$6nb@f111.iassf.easams.com.au
bjw@f111.iassf.easams.com.au (Brendan WALKER) writes:
>The first is that CVS allows more than one user to be modifying a
>file at a time, rather then the SCCS/RCS single file lock system. This
>may sound crazy at first, but it is actually very good. What CVS does is
>automatically "merge" the changes made on a particular version of the
>file.
A method of merging deltas was described some years ago.
It sounded to me like a really bad idea then, and does now.
The assumption here is that changes that affect different lines are
independent.
I have never known this to be the case.
> The power of this is that you progress
>from "file" change control to "line" change control.
If this were "natural unit" change control, things might be different.
Changes to different procedures stand a chance of being independent;
changes to the same procedure are very very likely to conflict even
if they don't actually affect the same lines.
--
Fifty years of programming language research, and we end up with C++ ???
Richard A. O'Keefe; http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/~ok; RMIT Comp.Sci.
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Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-05-30 0:00 Configuration Management for Ada on Unix W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)
1996-05-30 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1996-05-30 0:00 ` James A. Squire
1996-05-31 0:00 ` Brendan WALKER
1996-05-31 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe [this message]
1996-05-31 0:00 ` David Weller
1996-05-31 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1996-05-31 0:00 ` James A. Squire
1996-05-31 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-05-31 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1996-06-02 0:00 ` Jim Kingdon
1996-06-03 0:00 ` James A. Squire
1996-06-03 0:00 ` James A. Squire
1996-06-04 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1996-06-04 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1996-06-04 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-06-04 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-06-05 0:00 ` James A. Squire
1996-06-05 0:00 ` David Weller
1996-06-05 0:00 ` Jim Kingdon
1996-06-05 0:00 ` James A. Squire
1996-06-05 0:00 ` James A. Squire
1996-06-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-06 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-06-06 0:00 ` Kevin F. Quinn
1996-06-07 0:00 ` Kevin F. Quinn
1996-06-09 0:00 ` John & Susan Edge & Farrina Wilson
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1996-05-30 0:00 Bob Crispen
1996-05-22 0:00 David R. Ellison
1996-05-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-05-23 0:00 ` Dave Wood
1996-05-22 0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison
1996-05-24 0:00 ` Laurent Pautet
1996-05-25 0:00 ` Bob Crispen
1996-05-26 0:00 ` Laurent Pautet
1996-05-28 0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison
1996-05-28 0:00 ` Laurent Pautet
1996-05-28 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1996-05-29 0:00 ` Laurent Pautet
1996-05-29 0:00 ` Chris Papademetrious
1996-05-30 0:00 ` Laurent Pautet
1996-05-30 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-01 0:00 ` Jim Kingdon
1996-06-02 0:00 ` Laurent Pautet
1996-05-23 0:00 ` Bob Gilbert
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