Re: Issues with network file systems and CVS

[Eric Siegerman]

On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 11:23:48AM -0700, Mike Ayers wrote:
>       It also helps to point out that there should be no need to backup the 
> sandbox directories.

Well, I wouldn't go that far, for precisely the reasons you
describe:

> This, however, requires that the developers be 
> trained to perform intermediary checkins of work in progress, which 
> itself requires training in branch-and-merge development for larger 
> changes (or just to permit checking in still broken files), so it's 
> not the simplest thing.

I'd rephrase "there should be no need" to "depending on your
process, you might be able to get away without it".

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