Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: How to 'update' an updated archive?

[James Blackwell]

In lists.arch.users, you wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 07:53:02PM -0700, Sri Ramkrishna wrote:
>> This begs to have a script written that will unrm files and be put in
>> the repository.
>
> I'm not sure that it's such a common occurance that it's even worth the
> trouble -- in some sense it's better that people understand the underlying
> mechanism so that they can handle whatever cases they actually encounter.
>
> To tell the truth I have no idea why people keep asking about this; sure CVS
> handles this case conveniently, but to be honest, it simply doesn't seem to
> happen very often.
>

Oh, rm'ing files and then updating to get them back is not only a common
occurance, but *frequent*. 

Many cvs users don't know how to resolve conflicts. If they come across
a conflict while updating their tree, often they'll delete the files
with conflicts, update, and then re-do the work that they just threw
away. Yes, I'm completely serious. Reject resolution is a complicated
tasks and there isn't very much educational information "out there" that
teach people how to resolve conflicts.

One of the ways that we could resolve the "I want rm-then-update" is to
provide some simple and some moderate examples of conflict resolution in
the arch docs. 

If I ran the world, I'd actually task Tom with this one; giving him
instructions to write with a naive audience in mind. 


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