> The reason I wanted the savannah patch manager is putting patch files > into the CVS tree you are patching is seriously strange. This sounds right at first sight. But with CVS we aren't patching trees (eg there is no changeset support that I know) but are keeping revisions of individual files.
> Maintaining forked trees under test_area is even worse, It is, given a decent SCMS, but because ... > this is a totally inappropriate use of CVS ... CVS quite actually is a "totally inappropriate" (read too simplistic) tool for managing *trees* (instead of aggregegations of files) it works out. > and causes very severe problems when > you try to sync back to be main tree, as Syan knows ;-) Well, at the end of the day a decent SCMS would have refused forced, overwriting checkins without triple-or-so confirmation. Syan's CVS client must have been crappy enough to let him do that so casually. Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346 _______________________________________________ Gnumed-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumed-devel
