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>[ On Monday, February 14, 2000 at 03:27:11 (-0800), Paul Sander wrote: ]
>> Subject: Re: CVS File Locking
>>
>> The message that comes across from you, Greg, is that users must choose
>> either the concurrent model or the locking model, and commit to it 100%.
>> If that simply isn't feasible, then they should adopt some difficult
>> hybrid environment.
>Yup. And the reason is that it would be absolutely against the design
>goals of CVS to build a hybrid environment. CVS is designed to *FORCE*
>concurrent development. If you don't like it then don't use it (and
>don't post stupid arguments about it either).
It appears to me like there's sufficient support to change the design
(i.e. empirically it seems like about half the contributors to this subject
agree that locking should be added as an option). Indeed, maybe it already
has; the new edit options described by Noel recently might be adequate, if
they operate on a per-branch basis. I'll check them out as time permits.
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