[openbeos] Re: SCM

"Waldemar Kornewald" <Waldemar.Kornewald@xxxxxx>:
>
> p {margin: 0px}> > Hi, the SCM discussion is not finished, yet. ;)
> > > This question might seem stupid, but I cannot think of a good 
> > > reason...
> > > Why is "add" and "remove" needed at all? Can the system not 
> > > automatically add and remove everything and allow removing the 
> > > entries 
> > > from the submit message if they should not be committed?
> > 
> > I think that would be far more annoying than anything. Why on earth 
> > would you want this? I think add/remove is very low overhead.
> 
> Yes, that might be, but you could easily move them into your private 
> hacking branch if they should not be committed...
> Anyway, the most annoying restriction of p4 is "edit". This could be 
> removed, I hope. Or is it a feature? Can someone please explain why it 
is needed?
> 
It's a feature; it's so the Perforce server can keep track of which 
files you have opened. Unlike CVS, Perforce stores client state.

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Mikael Jansson
http://mikael.jansson.be

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