Re: Perforce vs CVS

[email protected] (Russ Allbery)
Newsgroups perl.bootstrap
Organization The Eyrie
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Nick Ing-Simmons <[email protected]> writes:

> So how does CVS avoid corrupt files when I try and change sv.c from
> Dallas, Sarathy from Canada, and Graham from UK ?

One of you gets the change, the other will need to do an update and merge
and then commit your additional changes.  File integrity locking isn't the
difference; Perforce is apparently letting you do RCS-like exclusive
locking too (which isn't in CVS intentionally).

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Russ Allbery ([email protected])             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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