[OT] SalesForce + CVS

Tom Hukins tom at eborcom.com
Mon Sep 14 20:18:27 BST 2009


On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 06:59:00PM +0100, Dirk Koopman wrote:
> David Cantrell wrote:
> >On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 04:35:18PM +0100, Dirk Koopman wrote:
> >
> >>Without getting into religious wars about it, both CVS and SVN are 
> >>designed for individuals or (very) small teams to be working on one 
> >>problem at a time on a particular unit of source.
> >
> >You're talking about merge conflicts?  Git doesn't prevent them.
> >
> No I am talking about nasty CVS simultaneous repository conflicts where 
> several people have the same code checked out and then check it all back 
> in separately.

Have you also encountered this problems in a post 1.0 release of Subversion?

I assumed you were talking about merge conflicts because CVS and SVN
deal with atomicity differently, and you seemed to describe a problem
that affects both products.

Tom


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