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Re: CVS bashing?


From: Mike Castle
Subject: Re: CVS bashing?
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 15:18:41 -0700
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On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 06:06:22PM -0400, Eric Siegerman wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 02:27:15PM -0700, Mike Castle wrote:
> > I've recently started working at a perforce shop.  One thing that perforce
> > does with it's merging is, instead of doing a default merge, it gives you
> > options:
> > 
> > Keep your changes only, keep the other set of changes only, or merge the
> > changes.
> 
> Not too hard to do in CVS once you know how.  Granted, you have
> to take those steps *before* typing "cvs update"; it doesn't stop
> to ask you.  (No, I'm not suggesting it should!)

Oh, true.  delete your file, or keep a backup copy of it before hand.

But sometimes, if you know there is going to be this type of issue, that
cvs would stop to ask you.  But as I said, it's rare that you actually need
that function, and probably not worth trying to code in.  :->

mrc
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