On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Andrew C Aitchison wrote:

> > > Even though I have XFree86 CVS commit access, I do most of my new
> > > work in a separate tree, which I keep in sync with the XFree86
> > > tree.  I don't find this to be a significant burden.

> > Sure, I don't do actual development in that tree either. But when I am
> > done I need to the code into the official tree to avoid major patching
> > and integration headaches in the future. For you that is easy, since you
> > can just commit your changes into the primary tree.

> I doubt that I do as much development work as you, but I've found
> CVS's merging reliable enough that I can afford to do a CVS update
> into my development tree every night. When the update touches lines
> that I have also changed, it handles the conflict well enough that
> it is easy to sort out.

You are definitely more trusting of CVS than I am...  I _never_ use a
checked out tree for development.

Marc.

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