[ On Friday, October 12, 2001 at 09:35:58 (-0500), Thornley, David wrote: ] > Subject: RE: CVS - setup reserved checkout > > > What do you mean by "method locking"? Locking individual parts > of a file? It wouldn't do you any good.
Well, not with CVS anyway! :-) Maybe in a multi-user smalltalk image it might (since you only ever edit one method at a time -- at least with the standard system browser), but smalltalkers have long ago decided that everyone needs to do merges all the time in order to share changes amongst their private images and that the best way to avoid conflicts is to never change an old method (unless it's just a fix), but rather to write a new one. There are problems with this process too, obviously (bloat and poorly integrated designs being the most common), but that's where refactoring steps in to save the day -- and it's really just a way to start over again with a whole new set of objects the same as you might start a whole new CVS module when beginning work on a major rewrite of some project. -- Greg A. Woods +1 416 218-0098 VE3TCP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Planix, Inc. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Secrets of the Weird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs