Re: ada writing guide

[Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>]

In article <8dgk8i$ak4$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
  Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> wrote:

> This is incomprehensible, with proper revision control no one
> ever wipes out anyone else's work.
(sigh) You seem to be missing the point too.

Yes, the old versions are still there. But in order for version 1.2 to
be based on version 1.1, the person who created 1.2 had to have been
working from version 1.1 (and not 1.0). Right?

If this were a normal source file, then emacs would at worst warn the
user that the file has changed on disk before it allows them to edit it.
A similar warning would be given before the file can be saved. But the
exception file is *not* a normal source file (unless you load and
hand-edit the file, I guess), and no such warnings occur. Try it
yourself with two emacs sessions if you don't believe me. Throw RCS into
the mix, and verify for yourself that the same thing happens, only with
saved copies.

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