[ On Wednesday, October 10, 2001 at 00:59:20 (GMT), Bryon Lape wrote: ] > Subject: Re: Making a file writeable > > This only works on the first checkout. In a sane and normal source control > system, files stay read only until you check them out. CVS seems to be > neither and lets people change files at will. This is quite bad and counter > productive.
In the concurrent (parallel) development model enforced by CVS all developers are encouraged to make changes to any files at any time. In some types of projects, eg. a large integrated program with many sub-systems (eg. an OS kernel), where many developers may have to make tiny but sweeping changes through the whole source tree, this kind of model is the only one that is "productive". In other types of projects this concurrent model is more or less invisible and of no impact, positive or negative. -- Greg A. Woods +1 416 218-0098 VE3TCP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Planix, Inc. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Secrets of the Weird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs