[ On Tuesday, February 15, 2000 at 18:28:45 (-0800), Paul Sander wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Blinded by philosophy (kinda long)
>
> The simple answer to your question about "why do people want locking
> in CVS" is that they prefer the concurrent model,
That's only true in some portion of the requests posted publicly to this
list.
> but can't use it
> for all of their sources. In other words, they've found a need to have
> both methods at their disposal in the same project.
Such people are obviously blind to the possibilities of dealing with
unmergable files already inherent in CVS -- methods that do not require
giving up concurrent development.
> As for the other stuff like reverting to RCS or SCCS, well, it turns
> out that CVS has one incredibly nice feature that those simpler systems
> don't: A centralized repository.
He didn't say anything about reverting to using file-at-a-time tools
like RCS or SCCS.
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