Re: CVS - setup reserved checkout

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Friday, October 12, 2001 at 00:06:34 (-0400), Bryon Lape wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: CVS - setup reserved checkout
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> On 11/10/2001 at 23:03 address@hidden wrote:
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> >Read Berliner's whole paper.  Understand what it means to "force"
> >developers to use a "parallel" development paradigm and learn what the
> >benefits are.
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> I understand it, there aren't any.

Sorry you feel that way -- many people. myself obviously included, find
the parallel development paradigm almost invaluable.  I happen to also
like the way CVS forces it on its users, though many other less
purposeful tools employ the same paradigm with less forcefulness (and
many of them are very successful commercial tools -- people are choosing
the parallel development paradigm with their pocket books too!).

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