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Date:      Fri, 02 Feb 1996 16:26:57 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
To:        Richard Wackerbarth <rkw@dataplex.net>
Cc:        haury@sagem.fr, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: CTM: evolutions of ctm 
Message-ID:  <2791.823274817@critter.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 01 Feb 1996 22:51:36 CST." <v02140b00ad373cd93dcd@[199.183.109.242]> 

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> haury@sagem.fr provided some patches to ctm to expant its functionality.
> 
> First let me say "thanks" to him.
> 
> >>       possibility of local modifications to the tree :
> >
> >YEAHHH!!!!
> >
> >>       before working on a file <name>, CTM first checks for the existence
> >>       of the file <name>#ctm. If this file exists, CTM works on it instead
.
> 
> Poul-Henning Kamp replies:
> 
> >Hmm, what if we make it .ctm then, would that be better ?
> 
> Now I'll add my own opinion.
> 1) The ability to handle "local" modifications of a tree is extremely importa
nt.
> 2) However, maintaining multiple versions of a tree in the same location
> [...]

Sorry Rich, I think you are off on a tangent.
What you propose is overengineering in my book.
If you need that level of control, get the cvs tree.

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