Re: Commit inconsistency: Up-to-date check did not fail though it sho

[Larry Jones]

Reinstein, Shlomo writes:
> 
> - User A checks-out the latest version of project p.
> - User B checks-out the latest version of project p.
> - User A changes one of the files in p, and commits his changes to the
> repository.
> - User B changes one of the files in p (not the same file that user A
> changed).
> - User B commits his changes to p, without first updating his working copy.
> Against all expectations, user B succeeds to commit even though his working
> copy is not up to date, leading to an unstable latest version of the project
> in the repository.

CVS only demands that what you're committing be up to date.  If B had
done a simple "cvs commit", then CVS would have examined the entire
directory and complained about the file modified by A being out of date.
Instead, B apparently commited just the file he had modified ("cvs
commit foo"), so CVS only checked that file, found it up to date, and
allowed the commit.

-Larry Jones

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