[cvsnt] Lost changes

[Ian Epperson]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Craig Graham [mailto:craig at twolips-translations.co.uk] 
> Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 12:13 PM
> 
> Ian Epperson wrote:
> 
> > Any help or insight would be welcome.
> 
> I've not been using CVS for long, but I've used VB6 with 
> SourceSafe for some
> time. I've found a few times that I've made a mod to a file and then
> committed it without actually saving the file to disk- hence 
> a few times
> I've lost minor changes and had to re-do them. If you're 
> working in an IDE
> that allows you to compile and test code on the fly rather 
> than saving and
> explicitly compiling, you may be encountering a similar niggle.


Considered that possibility.  Immediately after making the change, I saved,
compiled, closed, committed the file.  When co-worker mentioned that the
change wasn't present, I re-opened the file and found the change missing.

Now, if I made the change, missed the save, it would have compiled (lousy
IDE), but wouldn't have closed without warning, wouldn't have shown the file
changed or allowed me to commit.  If I missed the close, double-clicking the
file (in this IDE) would show me the in-memory version - with my routine
intact - which it didn't.

Immediately after this happened, I retraced my steps, and questioned my
memory of each one.  I'm CERTAIN I made the change, I'm fairly certain I
saved, compiled and closed.  I'm CERTAIN I committed the file and I'm
CERTAIN the change disappeared - I have logs to show the last two.  If I
left off saving or closing, the results I had would be different (warnings,
or code NOT gone).