[Ontology-editors] emergency editing freeze - changes lost

[Chris Mungall]

is this kind of thing common? how often do you think we have unnoticed  
losses (or losses noticed too late)?

is this a failure in cvs or, usage of cvs (i.e not doing an update  
before committing)

On Jan 30, 2009, at 2:39 AM, Midori Harris wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've just noticed that the cvs commit of gene_ontology_write.obo  
> revision 1.420 lost a lot of changes from a few previous revisions.  
> I'm going to revert to 1.419, and then re-apply all of the  
> legitimate changes made since then. Fun, fun. So it will help the  
> remains of my sanity immensely if no other commits take place before  
> I finish.
>
> I'm imposing an emergency editing freeze starting now. Please don't  
> commit gene_ontology_write.obo until I email again to thaw.
>
> David - I think this explains the conflict message you skyped me  
> about yesterday.
>
> Jane - you'll owe me a big favor, cos 1.420 was yours -- I'll find a  
> big nasty SF item with fangs and assign it to you ;)
>
> thanks,
> midori
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