Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Mon, 09 Dec 1996 15:26:06 -0800
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
Cc:        chat@FreeBSD.org, terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert)
Subject:   Re: siguing into current from a random version 
Message-ID:  <199612092326.PAA06087@root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 09 Dec 1996 22:07:30 %2B0100." <199612092107.WAA24141@uriah.heep.sax.de> 

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
>As Terry Lambert wrote:
>
>> Heh.  Like checking code in without compiling the tree as it would
>> look following the checkin...
>> 
>> Nothing you can do about that, really, without instituting global
>> writer locks on the tree (not that this will ever be approved).
>
>Do the global writer locks compile the tree for me?  Then i'm all for
>it! :-)
>
>Otherwise: moot point, i'd say...  I can barely remember that we've
>been suffering from two people hammering at the tree at the same spot,
>and causing inconsistencies by this.  99.9 % of the problems have been
>human errors.

   In fact, in the history of the project, I don't think it has ever occurred.
The mistakes I was refering to are botched diffs and incomplete commits.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199612092326.PAA06087>