[M3devel] Checkins

[Dragiša Durić]

I would use cvs .... status 2>/dev/null to know what was changed so I
can plan next steps when updating. Usually I do cvs ... diff also. This
way I know what and how was changed before I commit anything.

Works well... Most of time :)

dd

On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 16:37 +0000, Jay wrote:
> Tony, The problem was I forgot to add a file, right?
> That's something the tools are setup to make you fail at as I
> understand. Right? I have to remember to cvs add whenever I create a
> file. Building works either way.
> After commiting, I updated another machine, noticed the missing file,
> added it.
>  
> I thought other than the forgotten file, the changes were coherent, at
> least for non-NT386GNU.
>  
>  - Jay
>         
>         ______________________________________________________________
>         From: hosking at cs.purdue.edu
>         To: m3devel at elegosoft.com
>         Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:36:56 -0400
>         CC: jkrell at elego.de
>         Subject: [M3devel] Checkins
>         
>         It seems that the reason things failed is because a checkin of
>         multiple related changes was not done as a single atomic
>         commit.  This meant that partial checkout of inconsistent code
>         occurred while bits and pieces of a coherent set of changes
>         were being singly checked in.  Please try to bulk checkin
>         related changes so as to avoid these sorts of
>         inconsistencies.  cvs does a great job of bundling an entire
>         set of changes as one commit.  It also has the nice
>         side-effect of not bombarding folks with zillions of commit
>         e-mails -- instead the bundled commit comes in one message.
>         
>         
>         If we use the tools properly, then everyone can play nicely
>         together.
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Dragiša Durić <dragisha at m3w.org>