[Gllug] OT: Source control - backup

Martin A. Brooks martin at clues.ltd.uk
Thu Jul 31 12:57:43 UTC 2003


On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 13:47, Kristian Davies wrote:
> Is this a common problem with all source control software...?

No.  With CVS each seperate developer can work on their own branch,
committing at will without affecting the main trunk.  Changes that are
known to be good and working can be merged back into the trunk.

Subversion handles this even better, and each commit is a truely atomic
transaction.

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Martin A. Brooks, Clues Ltd
http://www.clues.ltd.uk/


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