[cvsnt] cvs update overwrites changes

Bo Berglund Bo.Berglund at system3r.se
Wed Mar 2 10:29:59 GMT 2005


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>> I am a bit confused, however, since the edit command was always used
>> here. I have always thought this was a part of concurrency and a
>> method to keep track of who was doing what, 
>> since one developer can commit his copy of the file while another
>> developer has it edited.
>
>That was exactly my point. Bo's post implied that using "cvs edit" prohibits
>concurrent development, but it does not.

No, what I meant is that cvs edit is *not needed* because CVS is a concurrent
tool and it will handle the changes properly even when everyone checks out
all files in read/write mode.

/Bo



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