Working on sources in parallel

[Matthias Kaeppler]

Hello,

just recently we had the problem that two people had checked out the 
same module and were working on it independently. When the second one 
committed his sources again, CVS reported an error (I can't reproduce it 
100% here, sorry) about the sources not being up-to-date.

However, I thought that would be exactly what CVS takes care of, in fact 
making sure that noone has to bother about who else has checked out a 
version and modifies it, and merges all changes together when committing 
it back.

I haven't seen anything about this issue in the info pages either.

Am I missing something?

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Matthias Kaeppler