>Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 15:44:53 -0400
>From: Avi Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: merging
>X-Mailing-List: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archive/latest/18008
>
>Larry Jones wrote:
>
>> ... As far as CVS is concerned, a change is just deleting
>> some old lines and inserting some new lines; what's so special
>> about the case where there aren't any new lines?
>
>It may be the same from the programmer's perspective, but not from
the
>user's. Deleting a file is much more severe than just deleting a few
>lines. Perhaps there should be a warning if more than a certain
number
>(which could be a configurable threshold) of lines is being deleted.
>
Since it is a versioning system, it is not going to be catastrophic if
you delete a bunch of lines anyways. Just get the previous version to
recover.
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