Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 10:04:36 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: siguing into current from a random version Message-ID: <199612100904.KAA29131@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199612100348.UAA03319@phaeton.artisoft.com> from Terry Lambert at "Dec 9, 96 08:48:49 pm"
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As Terry Lambert wrote:
> You don't commit until you compile successfully. I don't understand
> where you think "refresh the CVS tree after a commit" comes into it
> at all.
Either this or that:
> > Neither is compiling everything on freefall (or thud) an option.
> > Everything had to remain locked for all those hours -- that's
> > unacceptable.
is IMHO required for:
> It has to be locked over an update/build/commit.
^^^^^
Or how would you build it?
> Unless what you guys have been claiming about people only
> rarely working on the same files is false, and you're picking now
> to admit it for some reason.
We haven't claimed this, we've only claimed that hasn't caused us
serious problems. That's more than just a difference in wording.
I remember occasions where even three of us have been fixing the same
problem in the same files in (basically) the same way, independently
of each other. I _don't_ remember this being the reason for a tree
breakage however. The reasons for this have always been ``human
failing''.
> That really depends on if your "product" is a source tree, doesn't it?
Maybe. Ours isn't. :-) Our ``product'' are releases.
> Please pick one viewpoint to argue from, and see it through, instead
> of changing viewpoints when its convenient (to "better put down Terry's
> suggestions, and logic be damned").
I don't wanna ``put down your suggestions'', i'm only telling you that
we aren't suffering the desease you're giving us your medicine for. :)
So i fear the costs of your medicine (somebody has to implement it,
plus the costs discussed above) for just an ``you could perhaps be
caught by this desease some day'' occasion.
--
cheers, J"org
joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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