[NTLUG:Discuss] Comparison of CVS and SrcSafe

[juice@airmail.net]

On Thu, 04 Nov 1999 17:42:15 -0600, Steve Baker <sjbaker1 at airmail.net>
wrote:
>We also used SCCS - and the "Lock and hide" approach can also be painful.
>
>The number of times someone would check out a file, work on it and
>go home (or on vacation or off sick) without checking it back in
>again...then you'd need to make a silly one-line change and find
>yourself completely unable to do so without hacking into the miscreant's
>account, checking in a bunch of half-finished code, fixing it all up 
>and than doing the one line change.
>
>With RCS, it's easy - you just edit the file, check in your one-liner
>and when the person who is doing the major hack comes to check it in,
>they'll see the one line change you did and be able to intelligently
>make sure it's in the merged file (or not).
>
As the person who was supposed to make the code look pretty and squish
many versions into as few as possible after years of grab a copy and
edit for new customer, I got bit painfully a few times. Grab-and-edit
made changes the were labeled no more clearly than "added and deleted
a few lines". There I was with a diff untility and a new version
changed in the section I had just gone through. It took about a week
to redo a section hit like that at least twice. When I got through,
90% of the original code had gone bye-bye.

juice --have fun --harm none