[ On Friday, February 18, 2000 at 18:43:32 (-0800), Michael Peck wrote: ]
> Subject: Multiple developers and code integration
>
> You would get on the hat list with 'cvs hat -a <message>', and then when
> it was your turn, you would grab the hat with 'cvs hat -g'. Then you
> would check in, and 'cvs hat -f' to free the hat. This also sent email
> to the next person on the hat list informing them that the hat was now
> free for them to grab. 'cvs hat -l' showed all the people on the list
> with their comments, and a counter of how long they've been waiting, or
> how long the hat has been available to them. If nobody had the hat,
> only the first person on the hat list could grab it for the first half
> hour. If they didn't grab it, then the next person could grab it.
> There were also commands to jump ahead of others in the list and drop
> back behind others.
Kinda cool, but I don't think it's necessarily a good thing to integrate
directly into CVS.
> The reason I've gone through this long winded description, is to see if
> anyone else has run into this kind of problem, and how they have worked
> around it. Does everyone create a cvs hat?
Nope! :-)
But I can see how it could work well in some kinds of groups.....
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