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Re: updated to 1.11.6 (from 1.11.2) now have problems on windows
From: |
Larry Jones |
Subject: |
Re: updated to 1.11.6 (from 1.11.2) now have problems on windows |
Date: |
Tue, 16 Sep 2003 22:31:07 -0400 (EDT) |
Kevin Layer writes:
>
> Eric Siegerman <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> >> Instead, perhaps it should do something like: "if the specified
> >> pathname, together with the usual other criteria (-r, -D, sticky
> >> attributes, etc.), selects more than one *revision*, complain".
> >>
> >> The existing (I think) test cares about theoretical ambigity; my
> >> proposed one cares only about the practical problem -- the
> >> impossibility of stuffing two unrelated revisions into one
> >> sandbox file. If an operation isn't trying to do that,
> >> forbidding it on theoretical grounds seems pointlessly annoying.
>
> I completely agree. I hope this is implemented for the next 1.11.x.
Don't hold your breath. Implementing this would require such
significant changes to CVS that I'd be tempted to call it 2.x.
-Larry Jones
Just when I thought this junk was beginning to make sense. -- Calvin