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Re: [Gnumed-devel] Results tracking (was: gnumed ideas 0.1 and post-0.1)


From: Karsten Hilbert
Subject: Re: [Gnumed-devel] Results tracking (was: gnumed ideas 0.1 and post-0.1)
Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 19:17:43 +0100
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> The reason I wanted the savannah patch manager is putting patch files
> into the CVS tree you are patching is seriously strange.
This sounds right at first sight. But with CVS we aren't
patching trees (eg there is no changeset support that I know)
but are keeping revisions of individual files.

> Maintaining forked trees under test_area is even worse,
It is, given a decent SCMS, but because ...

> this is a totally inappropriate use of CVS
... CVS quite actually is a "totally inappropriate" (read too
simplistic) tool for managing *trees* (instead of
aggregegations of files) it works out.

> and causes very severe problems when
> you try to sync back to be main tree, as Syan knows ;-)
Well, at the end of the day a decent SCMS would have refused
forced, overwriting checkins without triple-or-so confirmation.

Syan's CVS client must have been crappy enough to let him do
that so casually.

Karsten
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