Greg A. Woods wrote :
|| [ On Tuesday, February 15, 2000 at 08:43:33 (-0500), Noel L Yap wrote: ]
|| > Subject: Re: "cvs add" upward recursion (Was: CVS File Locking)
|| >
|| > No, Greg. You keep arguing the wrong point. It seems many (if not all) on this
|| > list is arguing that IT IS NOT *NECESSARY*.
||
|| I don't care if you or anyone else thinks its necessary or not (though
|| you're clearly wrong in your claim above -- there are only about three
|| or four people expressing that though, and at least three of them would
|| argue that up is down if I said it wasn't because they argue against
|| everything I say regardless).
|| It is absolutely critical for my proposal
|| and is one of its central features of the "standard" user interface and
|| I will not drop it unless someone can prove that it can cause damage
|| under normal circumstances.
"Absolutely critical" is bullshit. The existing experience of CVS,
more than 10 years, shows it is *not* absolutely critical. Even you
have managed to live without it for all this time. I've said this
before, it is trivially self-evident, yet you continue to insist on
absolute necessity.
You have claimed it is necessary but never given any real
demonstration of it. The consistancy argument, even if were
completely true, does not demonstrate necessity.
The strongest claim of necessity you have stated is that you use a
front-end tool that has to work around not having upward searching (I
agree that "upward recursion" is a bad name, BTW).
The traditional answer on this mailing list to such claims is: if
your tool is inadequate, go find a different version control program
that *does* match your needs, instead of trying to change cvs. You,
Greg, are usually the one issuing such an answer. Most others here
are much more restrained.
People do not argue up is down just because you say the opposite.
They argue grey, while you insist that there is only black and
white. As the rest of the discussion considers shades of grey, you
keep arguing black vs. white.
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