On 12/27/06 4:35 PM, Claude Schneegans wrote: > Lets say I don't agree AT ALL with neither the cons of the locking > solution, neither the pros of the merging.
So tell me, how do you currently cope with multiple developers wanting to make changes to the same file? Do they download the file from a central server and then make their changes? Do you restrict developers from working on the same files often? What if they both actually need to work on the same file over the course of a day or two day's worth of work, do they spend all day juggling the file back 'n forth? Do you have any project management tools in use, like MantisBT (http://www.mantisbt.org/, which I've used for several years and is good stuff), Basecamp, etc? How do you decide what projects need to be done, what files need to be changed, who does what work, etc? Revision management tools, like subversion, fit into this and the fact that you aren't seeing this (or don't want to deal with the complexities) suggests that you've already got a nest of problems you may not be aware of. What happens if developer B makes changes to developer A's code and all of a sudden something breaks, e.g. some custom Javascript code that isn't heavily used? Can you go back to see what was changed, who changed it, what task was being worked on at the time? Or are you SOL left to pull the entire project apart until you find the problem? Yes, you can develop large applications without revision management, but you shouldn't. Doing so will cause you problems - maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but you can bet that someone is going to get rather upset the day it does and you just better hope that person isn't a client. -- Damien McKenna - Web Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Limu Company - http://www.thelimucompany.com/ - 407-804-1014 #include <stdjoke.h> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:265167 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
