Brendan Jurd escribió:
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 12:16 AM, Alvaro Herrera
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >  Perhaps what's going on is that the software does not check that the
> >  version I read is the most recent one :-( so if two of us edit the page
> >  at the same time, the one committing last is going to stomp on the
> >  changes of the other one.
> 
> I had a look into the history on the CommitFest page.  It looks like
> Alvaro unintentionally clobbered the previous five edits, which went
> back about four hours.  I've restored those changes now, but it is
> definitely worrying that such a drastic regression could occur.
> 
> The only way I can conceive of this happening is that Alvaro was
> making his edits on a *very* old copy of the edit page.

Really strange.  The only way I imagine this could have happened is that
the browser got the page from the cache instead of re-fetching it.  As I
said, I normally verify the diff manually before committing.

I'll keep an eye on diffs _after_ committing.

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