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Re: merge losing changes, no Conflict


From: Larry Jones
Subject: Re: merge losing changes, no Conflict
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 13:15:31 -0500 (EST)

Dave Thorn writes:
> 
> However, several times recently I have found code to mysteriously
> stop working (investigation suggests this is after someone else
> commits changes to the file), not through compile errors, but logic,
> and when I look, the changes I made recently have gone.  There were
> a few .# files hanging around in the directory, which contained my
> changes, but the cvs update did *not* report a Conflict, which I
> understand and can easily deal with.  The changes don't even appear
> to have been at similar places within the file, so I don't
> understand why there are problems.  Is this expected behaviour?

No, of course it's not expected behavior.  By far the most frequent
cause of "lost changes" is someone doing an update on a file while they
have it open in a text editor and then later saving the file from the
editor (perhaps by exiting) and overwriting the updated file.

-Larry Jones

Everybody's a slave to routine. -- Calvin



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