Re: EB-lite developer roll call

On Monday 14 April 2003 19:15, Meredydd Luff wrote:
> It also makes commits properly atomic, and decently versioned. Under CVS,
> if I change three source files and then commit, I actually make three
> separate transactions - for example, taking foo.c from 1.1 to 1.2, bar.c
> from 1.19 to 1.20, and baz.c from 1.5 to 1.6. If one of these changes
> fails, the one before it stays (because it's already been completed), and
> the one after it doesn't happen, leading to possible inconsistency in the
> contents of the repository.

And just in case someone was dubious that it ever happens, this very same 
scenario just made Ayttm CVS completely unusable until Philip gets a reliable 
network connection again. And of course, Colin will find it very hard to roll 
all the modified files back individually. Subversion pays :^)

Meredydd
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