Re: Really a reserved checkout?

[Donald Sharp]

The cvs documentation is obtuse and hard to read.  I remember investing
many days and hours understanding cvs.  I imagine most people aren't
interested in doing so.  Having said that I don't think that the documentation
is bad.  It's very thourough, you just need to spend lots of time with
it.  People are just trying to get their jobs done.  They want
to treat a scm system as a black box, it's a rare developer who
spends time to understand their tools.

donald
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 04:13:05PM +0000, Mark Cooper wrote:
> It still amazes me how many people are still unwilling to take the 'leap 
> of faith' to the 'concurrent' teamworking methodology which is, after all 
> what cvs is all about, and yet for some reason still want to use the tool. 
> I suppose it's analogous to riding a bycicle without stabilisers for the 
> first time.
> 
> It leads me to wonder if there is something missing in the documentation 
> or the tool description from the (various) web site(s) that is somehow 
> preventing people from understanding what cvs is all about, although I 
> can't for the life of me see how anyone could 'miss' it.
> 
> Perhaps I'm just too intolerant.
> 
> Mark Cooper
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> address@hidden (Larry Jones)
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> 28/02/2003 15:33
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>         To:     address@hidden (Arun Sundar)
>         cc:     address@hidden, address@hidden
>         Subject:        Re: Really a reserved checkout?
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> 
> Arun Sundar writes:
> > 
> > Is this really possible in CVS. If I edit a file, UNTIL 
> > I COMMIT it no one should be able to commit that file.
> 
> CVS is the *Concurrent* Versions System.  If that's not what you want,
> you're using the wrong tool.
> 
> -Larry Jones
> 
> Everybody's a slave to routine. -- Calvin
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