Re: renaming under CVS

[Noel Yap]

--- "Greg A. Woods" <address@hidden> wrote:
> [ On Saturday, February 23, 2002 at 06:37:35
> (-0800), Noel Yap wrote: ]
> > Subject: Re: CVS Update Behaviour
> >
> > Because the tool is broken under such
> circumstances. 
> > It's broken because it claims to be concurrent,
> but
> > under such circumstances, it's not.
> 
> Huh?  What can concurrent editing of the same file
> on the same branch
> possibly ever have to do with renaming a file on one
> branch but not on
> another?  You've really lost it now Noel.

Let me explain so even you can understand:  Developer
A should be able to modify a file while developer B
renames it.  The merge should go gracefully and
seemlessly regardless of who checked in first since
there is no conflict.  But this isn't true when using
CVS.

Noel


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