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Re: merge losing changes, no Conflict
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Markus Warg |
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Re: merge losing changes, no Conflict |
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Wed, 7 Nov 2001 09:25:07 +0100 |
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Larry,
BTW: I found some .# files (not lockdirectories) in our repository, too.
Is it okay to have them there or is it a sign that something went
wrong?
I don't experience the described problems, just curious.
Markus
On Die, 06 Nov 2001, Larry Jones wrote:
> 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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- Re: merge losing changes, no Conflict, Dave Thorn, 2001/11/06
- Re: merge losing changes, no Conflict, Larry Jones, 2001/11/06
- Re: merge losing changes, no Conflict,
Markus Warg <=
- Re: merge losing changes, no Conflict, Larry Jones, 2001/11/07
- Re: merge losing changes, no Conflict, Paul Sander, 2001/11/07
- Re: merge losing changes, no Conflict, Larry Jones, 2001/11/07
- Re: merge losing changes, no Conflict, Markus Warg, 2001/11/08
- Re: merge losing changes, no Conflict, Paul Sander, 2001/11/08
- Re: merge losing changes, no Conflict, Larry Jones, 2001/11/08
- Re: merge losing changes, no Conflict, Markus Warg, 2001/11/08
- Re: merge losing changes, no Conflict, Larry Jones, 2001/11/08
- Re: merge losing changes, no Conflict, Markus Warg, 2001/11/09
- Re: merge losing changes, no Conflict, Larry Jones, 2001/11/09