Frank, No, the idea of CVS and SVN is that an unlimited number of developers can check out code and modify it. Upon checking in code the code will go through a process where any changes are merged together. (in my case no, I cannot anonymously check in code. Although cvs and svn COULD allow that for obvious reasons the apache projects do not)
If you know where they are at you can get the source code to almost any project on sourceforge the same way, since they use cvs also. In the M$ world of SCM they lock the files when they are checked out (by the way CVS can also do this if you set it up to) in fact im not sure you can set up sourcesafe to NOT lock them :) at any rate this is likely how you are used to SCM since you can get rid of a step (merging) which can be REALLY annoying if 3 or 4 people have changed the file since you checked it out. Al -----Original Message----- From: Frank W. Zammetti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 12:34 PM To: Struts Developers List Cc: Struts Developers List Subject: RE: RFC: Struts HTML Ajax-Aware Tags On Thu, April 7, 2005 1:15 pm, Fogleson, Allen said: > Huh? > > SVN is like CVS. You don't lock files when you check them out. I can't > write to the svn repository but almost anyone can do an anonymous > checkout, do updates (one way, to their copy of the repository). > Otherwise it would be near impossible to write patches :) This is a lesson for me. I thought one of the primary purposes of any source control system was to disallow concurrent modifications (unless specifically allowed). The whole point of checking code out, as I understand it (and use it on a daily basis) is to be sure I am the only one modifying a particular source file at any given time. Sure, you can always get the latest code from the repository and modify it to your hearts' content, but can you apply your changes anonymously then? Perhaps I have some stuff to learn here, but that is completely contrary to how we use source control here. -- Frank W. Zammetti Founder and Chief Software Architect Omnytex Technologies http://www.omnytex.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
