Re: Results of egrep -l '^<<<<<<< |^=======$|^>>>>>>> |^\|\|\|\|\\|\| '

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Thursday, July 19, 2001 at 15:10:44 (-0400), Noel L Yap wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Results of egrep -l '^<<<<<<< |^=======$|^>>>>>>> |^\|\|\|\|\    
> |\|\| '
>
> Are you saying that CVS will somehow (in yet an undisclosed manner) detect
> vendor branches and allow the checkin when there are conflict markers?  Or are
> you saying that stuff checked into vendor branches may not really be what the
> vendor gave you to begin with?

No, I said that you'd be an idiot to assume you could do something so
basic as "cvs diff | mail vendor" and expect they'll all come back to
you in the next release just as you e-mailed them.  This is true no
matter what changes you've made locally, or why you've made them.

What changes you send to a vendor, and in what form, is of course up to
you.  However what changes the vendor accepts is up to them.  If the
vendor uses CVS then they're not going to have any conflict markers in
their files in the first place, but if they don't and they do
(respecively), then it's your responsibility to ensure the changes
necessitated by your choice of version control tool are properly
managed (which probably means not trying to send them to the vendor, or
at least not expecting them to be accepted if you do).

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