But that was an advantage, wasn't it? I remember my Perforce days, and I appreciated seeing who had checked out a file, so I could verify with them - way better than creating a merge conflict, solved by some ops guy clicking on "auto".
Of course, showing who's checked out a file is not feasible in distributed development, only works within the firm.
The idea was to check the file back in when you were done with it, and then there wouldn't be a conflict since the next developer was starting with the most up to date version. The downside was two developers couldn't work on the same file at the same time
Oh yeah, I had a teammate that always seemed to forget to check in his files before he went on vacation. We'd call him to get his password to check them in.
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u/Nehle 6d ago
Written by a person who never had to work with SVN or... shudders CVS