Re: [RFC] CVS directory structure
| From: | Marshall Roch | Date: | Sun, 16 Nov 2003 03:11:02 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [RFC] CVS directory structure | ||
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Xavier Noguer wrote:
I'm -1 on this. CVS is a tool for source control. Doing development directly on your CVS dir is a bad idea.Can you (or anyone else) support this argument? Take a look at the CVS best practices from the LDP: http://en.tldp.org/REF/CVS-BestPractices/html/section1-devsandbox.html Specifically, section 4.4:
4.4. Do not work outside the sandbox The sandbox can be thought of as a controlled area within which CVS can track for changes made to the various source files. Files belonging to other developers will be automatically updated by CVS. Thus the developer who lives within the sandbox will stand to gain a lot of benefits of concurrent development. This benefit cannot be achieved for work done outside a sandbox.It's especially bad to copy files around when you aren't the only person working on a package. With your dev copy outside of CVS control, how will you apply bugfixes from other developers? -- Marshall Roch http://pear.php.net/user/mroch