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<H2><A NAME="s5">5. Note on dirty files</A></H2>
<H2><A NAME="ss5.1">5.1 A little bit of history first </A></H2>
<P>We started using cvs in our company when
we turned to Code Warrior Pro 2. We realized Code Warrior had a very annoying
bug and we were unable to find a work around with Source Safe. When you
lock the projects, and if you have a very deep and complex set of projects,
the projects behave badly and recompile each time, plus, they take a long-long
time to open...</P>
<P>So we thought : "OK, let's unlock them". Then the horror : the project
were auto-modifying themselves when unlocked. The problem appeared
when everybody tried to check-in the first time : all the projects
were modified each time, resulting in corrupting and
increasing fastly the size of the repository.</P>
<H2><A NAME="ss5.2">5.2 Advantage of "Open Code Software"</A></H2>
<P>Then I suggested we tried cvs so we could hack cvs by making it behave
the way we expect.</P>
<P>We came up with this solution :</P>
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<LI>1. The file with the extension <B>.mcp</B> will be a dirty file.
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<LI>2. The file will be ignored by cvs, like .cvsignore does, <B>unless</B>
the user asks to <B>explicitely</B> to something with this file :
the method to tell cvs to commit a dirty file is to ask to commit
<B>this</B> files and <B>only</B> this file (a recursive commit
will ignore the dirty file).
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<LI>3. The only way to add, remove, commit, merge a dirty file is
to explicitly invoke cvs with this operation and with only this file.
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<P>No need to tell you we'll be happy when finally Metrowerks will have
fixed this bug :<...</P>
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