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Re: Beyond GCC 3.0
- To: bbeuning at mindspring dot com (Brian Beuning)
- Subject: Re: Beyond GCC 3.0
- From: Joern Rennecke <amylaar at redhat dot com>
- Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 12:48:13 +0100 (BST)
- Cc: amylaar at redhat dot com (Joern Rennecke), gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
> Think of it as the difference between a tape drive (sequential access) and a
> disk drive (random access). As an example, consider code that Joe made
> a change, then Jill, then Jack. In CVS your choices are to get (1) none of the
> changes, (2) Joe's change, (3) Joe + Jill's changes, or (4) Joe + Jill + Jack's
Well, if Joe, Jill, and Jack each checked into branches of their own,
you just ask for the changes one by one.
If it's all on the trunk, or in the same branch, you can also get the
changes one by one, or you can get them all (or up to a point) and
then back out individual changes.