Greg A. Woods wrote :
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|| [ On Tuesday, February 15, 2000 at 10:11:04 (-0500), John Macdonald wrote: ]
|| > Subject: Re: CVS File Locking
|| >
|| > Things that are infrequent are the ones that most need automated
|| > checking to ensure they are done correctly. Computers are good at
|| > automating checks. Insisting on human manual management is a good
|| > way to ensure that it is done poorly and inconsistantly.
||
|| There's no problem in this case. CVS conflict detection is highly
|| automated and will catch all the goofs.
Detecting that a goof has happened, while useful, is far less
valuable than preventing it in the first place. Instead of
committing a conflict that indicates wasted effort, the developer
gets told about it. This is still too late to prevent the wasted
effort. Depending upon how much effort has been wasted, there could
be a rather strong objection to your characterization of "no
problem". Sometimes it may be negligable problem, it is never no
problem.
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