[Cvsnt] CVS allowed me to commit file with conflicts

[Tony Hoyle]

On Fri, 12 Jul 2002 11:19:05 +0000 (UTC), John.Hall at optionexist.co.uk
("John Hall") wrote:

>I have cvsnt 1.11.1.3 (57f) running on Windows 2000. I just did a commit fr=
>om Linux which has standard cvs 1.11. As it turned out the big merge I had =
>just done had a number of conflicts which I had missed (you're only notifie=
>d of conflicts on stderr, and I had only logged stdout).
>
>How was it possible that cvs allowed files with conflicts to be committed? =
>I had checked for conflicts by doing 'cvs -n up', and none of the files had=
> a C next to them.
>
The conflict check isn't perfect, and can miss things - it's up to the
developer to check whether a file still has conflicts before
committing.  It does manage to catch it 95% of the time, though.

A worse problem tends to be false positives, where someone has used
'>>>>>>>' in a comment.

Tony

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