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Re: How well does CVS handle other types of data?


From: Mike Castle
Subject: Re: How well does CVS handle other types of data?
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 11:52:48 -0700
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On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 02:07:58PM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> > The existing warning of a conflict during the merge is sufficient to
> > alert the user to a possible problem.
> 
> No, it is not.  The initial warning is only just that -- an initial
> warning.  CVS must now continue to detect that the conflict remains
> until it has been explicitly resolved and in the mean time avoid doing
> anything further that will "damage" the file.

Except that CVS doesn't continue to detect conflicts.  A simple touch(1) of
the file is sufficient to mark the file as "fixed."  And that will work on
any file type.

mrc
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     Mike Castle      address@hidden      www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/
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