Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 16:33:42 -0800 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Softweyr LLC <softweyr@xmission.com> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: siguing into current from a random version Message-ID: <199612100033.QAA06357@root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 09 Dec 1996 17:29:34 MST." <199612100029.RAA19616@xmission.xmission.com>
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>Terry Lambert opined: Actually, that was Joerg refuting Terry's claim that this was a problem. >% 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. > >David Greenman reinforced: >> 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. >Two ugly situations CVS doesn't handle well. One of the major caveats >of CVS is that transactions are not atomic; commits that are interrupted >by equipment, connectivity, and operator headspace errors are difficult >to recover from. It's not perfect, but the price is right. Or is it? These are actually fairly rare, too. I think it's happened to me once, but it was easy to recover. The biggest problem is that when I lost connectivity, it stayed that way for awhile and things remained half-committed during this time. ...but it was only 15 minutes, so no big deal. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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