[ On Wednesday, June 14, 2000 at 15:44:53 (-0400), Avi Green wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: merging
>
> 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.
>
> An analogy from another world: If you try to format your hard drive in
> DOS, it warns you first. It doesn't do that if it's a floppy.
Just because MS-DOS is stupid (and assumes the user is too), doesn't
mean CVS should be.....
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