Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Joshua Cranmer Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Two More Very General Consulting Question Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2011 20:55:41 -0600 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 12 Message-ID: References: <4edffd56$0$286$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2011 02:55:45 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="XYFZcXZR66Y1ziseUe8S8Q"; logging-data="9665"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/gJiGUnfpdLGji6Ambs/GVQ2hF0HI8PEc=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 In-Reply-To: <4edffd56$0$286$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZH7ogE62TNveMDK208pwdv4Q9yY= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:10601 On 12/7/2011 5:57 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote: > I have never seen an actual problem due to CVS not having > atomic commits. Or even read about. Maybe the problem was > not that important. When you are trying to do archaeology or rollback (say, bisecting to find a regression range), the "not having atomic commits" suddenly becomes a major dealbreaker. -- Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. -- Donald E. Knuth