That would only be possible in VSS if they had changed the files but
left them read only I think.

I'm a big fan of CVS, but it gets even better when you add the
frontends like bugzilla, bonsai, lxr and tinderbox, developed by the
Netscape people.

For example (needs javascript):

http://bonsai.mozilla.org/cvsblame.cgi?file=mozilla/calendar/libxpical/oeICalContainerImpl.cpp

and mouseover the link on line 49... and look where the link points you to.

This is really only necessary for big software development projects,
but it's an interesting example of what you can do with old Unix
tools.



On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 16:23:20 +0100, Howard Winter
<hdrw@h2org.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
> 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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