Claude: When working with code repositories, the first thing each developer does is download the current version of the entire repository. This is called their working copy. When you give them an issue/defect to work on, they...
1. Lock the file (noted on the server) 2. Download the HEAD revision - the latest copy of the code - in case someone else has changed it since their last download 3. Start working on their job Then once they are finished with their files, they commit them. This does two things... 1. Releases the lock on the server 2. Makes the file read-only on their working copy again You can work on any file on your disk ad inifinitum, however, source control only kicks it when a developer COMMITS the file back to the server. You could then also specify one of your developers as a build coordinator. Before the code gets put into the main tag (you usually don't want to build off of the HEAD revision) they download the code from each issue and tests that it a) fixes the defect correctly, and b) does not cause conflicts with other code. Again, this step it optional and for complex projects. CVS and SVN both support file locking on the server. If you do not want to support file locking, you then move the responsibility of build coordinator to each developer. If they commit a file and the server notifies them of conflicts, it is then their responsibility to merge the code, test it thoroughly again, and then re-commit the file. Hope that helps, Steve Brownlee http://www.fusioncube.net/ -----Original Message----- From: Claude Schneegans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2006 4:22 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Simple source control >>If I have the file checked out and someone else attempts to download the file, So you mean one has to download every file he wants to work on? What if he opens a copy of the file he already has on his disk? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:265168 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
