Re: CVS bashing?

[Noel L Yap]

address@hidden on 2001.04.12 13:31:41
>On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 11:29:59AM -0400, Noel L Yap wrote:
>> address@hidden on 2001.04.12 11:14:55
>> >I thought we were talking about a generic tool that would do a merge for
>> >any arbitrary file and save it to disk.  What needs to use CVS/Entries?
>>
>> Should CVS be told about the merge?
>
>Ahhh.  Ok.
>
>So there'd have to be some protocol that 3 files, and some sort of return
>code and CVS would handle marking up all of the Entries stuff (conflict,
>resolved status, appropriate time stamps, etc).

Yes, although I think the latter part of my email and what Paul had suggested
would be better:
     Allow CVS to use an external diff/merge tool that conforms to some
interface (like the protocol you imply above), instead of having the merge tool
use/call/communicate with CVS.

Noel




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