Re: org changes lost

[Carsten Dominik]

On Nov 24, 2008, at 5:32 PM, Chong Yidong wrote:

> Carsten Dominik <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > > Hmm maybe there should be a standard text that gets sent out to new
> > > committers, which includes things like "never, ever, simply upload  
> > > the
> > > newest version of your local sources; always merge."...
> >
> > My skills in version control my not be sufficient to do this, jumping
> > between different version control worlds.  So I work by applying
> > changed in Emacs to my local copy and reserve the right to undo
> > changes made in Emacs (not that this has been necessary recently).
> > Usually this works OK, occasionally, like yesterday, I miss  
> > something.
>
> Why don't you just use `cvs update' to merge in changes?


How would that work?  I copy my new files into the lisp/org directory
and then call cvs update to merge any changes from the Emacs crowd?
Hmm, this means the I cannot call cvs update in between, just to
get the changes in other files.

OK, thinking about it.

- Carsten