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Re: CVS Update Behaviour
From: |
Paul Sander |
Subject: |
Re: CVS Update Behaviour |
Date: |
Fri, 22 Feb 2002 11:43:17 -0800 |
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>On Thu, 2002-02-21 at 21:03, Paul Sander wrote:
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>> >[ On , February 21, 2002 at 18:55:21 (-0500), Arcin Bozkurt - Archie wrote:
>> >]
>> >> Subject: Re: CVS Update Behaviour
>> And going the other way, suppose a rename was done and a new file takes
>> the place of the old one in the filesystem. Now you have a dangerous
>> situation in which a single RCS files contains partial version histories
>> of multiple files. It's dangerous because it opens up the possibility of
>> someone merging inappropriate changes from one branch to another, from
>> one file to another.
>A question on merge behaviour of cvs: Will CVS be able to follow a file
>disappearing in one module, appearing in another one? I would say no.
>And therefore a merge would not be able to propogate bugfixes on that
>file even though the file is not deleted, and resurrected for another,
>etc.
>Am I right?
You are correct.
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- Re: renaming under CVS, (continued)
- Re: renaming under CVS, Paul Sander, 2002/02/27
- Re: renaming under CVS, Greg A. Woods, 2002/02/27
- Re: CVS Update Behaviour, Nagy Gabor, 2002/02/25
- Re: CVS Update Behaviour, Greg A. Woods, 2002/02/26
- Re: CVS Update Behaviour, Nagy Gabor, 2002/02/26
- Re: CVS Update Behaviour, Noel Yap, 2002/02/26
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- Re: CVS Update Behaviour, Kaz Kylheku, 2002/02/25
- Re: CVS Update Behaviour, Arcin Bozkurt - Archie, 2002/02/22
- Re: CVS Update Behaviour,
Paul Sander <=
- Re: CVS Update Behaviour, Greg A. Woods, 2002/02/22
- Re: CVS Update Behaviour, Noel Yap, 2002/02/22
- Re: CVS Update Behaviour, Greg A. Woods, 2002/02/22
- Re: refactoring under CVS, Noel Yap, 2002/02/23
Re: CVS Update Behaviour, Colm Murphy, 2002/02/25
Re: CVS Update Behaviour, Kaz Kylheku, 2002/02/25