Re: CVS Update Behaviour

[Noel Yap]

--- "Greg A. Woods" <address@hidden> wrote:
> [ On Friday, February 22, 2002 at 13:25:37 (-0800),
> Paul Sander wrote: ]
> > Subject: Re: CVS Update Behaviour
> >
> > And every time a merge is done from a branch where
> a rename was done on
> > one of the branches.
> 
> And what has been said about that for years now? 
> DON'T DO THAT!!!!

Because the tool is broken under such circumstances. 
It's broken because it claims to be concurrent, but
under such circumstances, it's not.

> > Not renaming files is a fine workaround for
> lacking the ability to rename
> > files, if you can live with it.  You can obviously
> live with it, but some
> > of us cannot.
> 
> Who said you can't rename files?  You just have to
> plan for it.

And serialize development while you're doing it.

Noel


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