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From: Dirkjan Ochtman <djc@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: chainsaw@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: gentoo-x86 commit in profiles: ChangeLog package.mask
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 19:11:17
Message-Id: CAKmKYaDT20wvLvhra5z8wqA7=Lp63+sPxoKbK5COU-7Q-nEa_g@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: gentoo-x86 commit in profiles: ChangeLog package.mask by Alexandre Rostovtsev
1 On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 8:50 PM, Alexandre Rostovtsev
2 <tetromino@g.o> wrote:
3 > Shouldn't CVS have prevented my changes to profile.mask from being
4 > overwritten by the next committer?
5
6 Maybe Tony mismerged your changes into his?
7
8 On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 9:04 PM, Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o> wrote:
9 > On 12-07-2012 14:50:18 -0400, Alexandre Rostovtsev wrote:
10 >> Shouldn't CVS have prevented my changes to profile.mask from being
11 >> overwritten by the next committer?
12 >
13 > How could CVS have done that (or git, hg, whatever VCS)?
14
15 In general, the VCS would not let you commit/push conflicting changes.
16 For CVS, I think you cannot commit unless your local copy is up to
17 date, so you'd have to update before committing, at which point CVS
18 would launch a merge tool or put merge markers in the file.
19
20 Right?
21
22 Dirkjan

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: gentoo-x86 commit in profiles: ChangeLog package.mask "Tony \\\"Chainsaw\\\" Vroon" <chainsaw@g.o>