Re: [Libphidget-devel] More on indent

[Jack S. <js...@ja...>]

On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 22:18, Vadim Tkachenko wrote:
> According to Jack Strohm:
> 
> > > > I was just commenting, that if it would be bad if any developer deleted
> > > > his copy of the files (see problem you fixed above) right before he
> > > > checked it in.
> > > 
> > > That's what the CVS rollbacks are for ;)
> > 
> > What are CVS rollbacks?
> 
> If the code was screwed up, it's possible to make a rollback. Moreover, it's
> possible to roll back not only the last change, but any arbitrary change (or
> span of changes) in the past.
> 
> Suppose, you're at revision 1.111, and figure out there was a problem with
> the change between 1.12 and 1.13. This is what you do then:
> 
> cvs update -j 1.13 -j 1.12 FileName
> 
> And the file in the working directory will contain the current file, less
> changes from 1.12 to 1.13.
> 
> Of course, this is a simplification - there may be conflicts (as in 'CVS
> conflicts'), but this is the big picture.

Well, what I was saying was the following scenario . . .


    cvs checkout  . . .
    
    make indent-local
    
    <edit the code>
    
    <everything works, let's commit our changes>
    
    make indent  <----- CRAP a bug delete all the code
    
    hmmm . . . crap, can't commit, got to redo all the previous changes
    I just finished writing.
    
does that make sense?
    


> 
> > > Duck!
> > 
> > What's with this Duck thing?
>  
> "Duck" is the action you're supposed to execute when something heavy is
> flying your way ;)

ahhhh . . .