> David> It seems to me that there is some value to telling the user which > David> files were changed, so I think we should avoid doing this on the > David> gate. > > meem> As per my earlier email, this was also the case with Teamware. > > Yes, but that's sort of the point. With Teamware you could say "putback > usr/src/uts" and it would complain if someone else had snuck in a kernel > change behind your back. You could then review the change to decide > whether to just bring it over, or to go further and compile, or even run > a sanity test, before redoing your putback.
No remote developer would ever say "putback usr/src/uts" (and even most local developers were unlikely to do so). Instead, they'd list the files explicitly (probably via wx) -- and if those files didn't conflict, the putback would succeed. -- meem
