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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.cygnus.argh.org>
Subject: Re: ada writing guide
Date: 2000/04/19
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Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com> writes:

> No warnings are given, no backups are made. The old version is
> over-written. Even for those who know the danger, this would be easy to
> accidentally do.

This can't happen with systems like CVS where each user works on his
private copy of the source files.  The master files are often not
directly accessible.  Problem solved. ;)