[cvsnt] cvs update overwrites changes

Bo Berglund bo.berglund at telia.com
Wed Mar 2 21:50:14 GMT 2005


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On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 20:59:24 +0100, Torsten Martinsen
<torsten at tiscali.dk> wrote:

>>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.
>>
>Indeed it will. But David's assumption that it is "a method to keep 
>track of who was doing what" is also correct.
>

Any commit will be logged both with the log message and the user who
did the change. In my view it is more usable to see who did what when
than to see who might be doing something right now...

/Bo
(Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden)



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