David,

Source Code Control...

On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 09:32:24 -0500, David VanHorn wrote:

> Disk crash, or "aw hell, I just copied the old stuff over the new stuff"

I thought this before I used any, but with PVCS and Visual Source Safe I have been in offices with people (not
me, of course! :-) who have lost work *because* of using source code control software, and getting it wrong.
I and others found both of the above to be terribly non-intuitive, different in their concepts, and not at all
difficult to misuse.

The easiest way if I remember rightly was to get a copy of the stored source on top of the one you've been
working on locally, thus wiping out all the changes you've done.  I can't remember exactly what they did, but
it wasn't difficult and and it didn't warn you that it is just about to do the very thing it's designed to
stop...

Cheers,

Howard Winter
St.Albans, England

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