Re: CVS and multiple platforms - version conflicts, features available etc.

[Ross Patterson]

On Tuesday 07 January 2003 07:16 pm, ADFH wrote:
> Basically in this situation there are management, programmers and
> graphic designers. In specific project at present, programmers using JSP
> and Java and tweaking some of the HTML. The graphic designers use
> DreamWeaver.. Problems arise on occasion when programmers edit inside
> templated areas of HTML files and then graphic designers push out a
> change to templates.

I don't know anything about DreamWeaver, but I've seen lots of other 
templating systems over the years, and they've always had some 
relatively-easy-to-recognize technique for separating template-text from 
everything else.  Assuming that's the case for DreamWeaver, you could write a 
commitinfo hook that checked the file being committed for changes *inside* 
the template area and disallow the commit if any are found.  That would leave 
the programmer with a file he couldn't check in, but that's sort of the idea 
after all :-)
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Ross A. Patterson
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