Re: Wanted: cvs update -d <modulename>

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Friday, November 30, 2001 at 16:11:07 (-0500), Austin Ziegler wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Wanted: cvs update -d <modulename>
>
> Which doesn't help if you have a multi-platform and/or multi-tool system.
> IDEs are good at what they do, and should integrate nicely with existing
> version control policies and tools -- but the tools themselves shouldn't
> make the task harder than necessary.

Unfortunately most IDE designers seem to have no clue about version
control of any kind and they seem to have a keen knack for making the
task of integrating with any normal file-based versioning tool almost
infinitely harder.  What's easy for an IDE seems to be fundamentally at
conflict with what's easy for a traditional file-based version control
tool (esp. one like CVS).

On the other hand an IDE should, by it's very definition of being an
"_Integrated_ Development _Environment_" should provide _integrated_
version control too.  Idealy it should be flexible enough to implement a
decent range of version control policies, but any integration with an
external version control tool is necessarily going to require special
effort, perhaps on both sides of the fence.

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