[ On Tuesday, February 15, 2000 at 14:51:27 (-0500), John Macdonald wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: removing the need for "cvs add file" to contact the server....
>
> CVS manages directories;
No, it does not.
> it does not just deal with disorganized
> files.
Well, actually it doesn't care about whether your files are disorganised
or not, and to the extent that they are within any given module it can't
even tell. It just works on the files it finds no matter how orderly or
dis-organised they might be. It is just an impartial tool that, as
Berliner says, acts as a kind of source-file server.
You've already admitted that you don't use CVS in any conventional way.
I would claim that together with your obvious mis-interpretations of
what I've been describing that you are not yet up to speed enough to
discuss these issues rationally. Perhaps you should try actually using
CVS in the conventional way for a while first.
> || proposal that will correct this bug.
>
> Rather, to discuss the coarser points of the proposal, that are above
> and beyond what is necessary to correct the bug.
My proposal was an RFC of sorts -- eventually it will come with "working
code" to prove the concept (just as the original release of CVS offered
a way to prove the validity of the copy-modify-merge paradigm). The
final pudding will be in how widely accepted my version is in the real
world.
If you want to discuss the coarser points then you'll have to do so on
your own from now on. I'm only interested in refining the details --
I'm perfectly happy with the overall concepts.
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