Forgotten patch: qofid.diff

[Derek Atkins]

Quoting Chris Shoemaker <c.shoemaker at cox.net>:

> On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 07:08:19PM -0400, Josh Sled wrote:
>> On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 17:04 -0400, David Hampton wrote:
>> > > Which is why we NEED more publication of the DEVELOPMENT code, not the
>> > > finished "CoreBuild" code.
>> >
>> > So get a branch and publish your code.  This is no different than
>> > committing change sets to a repository.  Someone has to check out the
>> > branch/apply the changeset if they want to see what you're working on.
>>
>> +1.  This whole "CoreBuild" specter that has been synthesized is a waste
>> of time.  Create a branch, already.
>
> Guys, it's really not about the branching.  If it was, CVS wouldn't
> suck; CVS supports branching just fine.  It's about the MERGING of
> branches.  *That's* why CVS sucks.

CVS merges branches just fine.  As David said:

  cvs update -j tag1 -j tag2

It'll merge great.  Like /all/ SCMs you need to manually resolve
conflicts.  But the merge works just fine.

 From where I sit, your major complaint is that you don't have CVS
commit access.  Everything else you're saying follows from that one
point.  If you had CVS commit access then EVERYTHING you've been
complaining about would be moot, because, well, even CVS does it all.

The /only/ thing CVS doesn't do well is file moves/renames.

-derek

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