[interchange-cvs] Honoring up-to-date checks before committing to CVS

Mike Heins mheins@redhat.com
Thu, 5 Apr 2001 09:44:54 -0400


To whom it may concern,

I have had this happen a couple of times recently -- I make a change
to something (it has been mostly foundation) and then the next time
I do a "cvs update" it has disappeared.

If you get a "failed up-to-date check", you *must* merge the changes
and not simply overwrite them. In other words, if you are doing:

    $ cvs commit whatever
    [go through "whatever" failed up-to-date check]
    $ cvs update
    $ cp my.new.whatever whatever
    $ cvs commit whatever

Bad, bad. Please don't do that. If you have a problem with the change
I made, let me know. But don't just overwrite them.

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