[Ontology-editors] emergency editing freeze - changes lost

[Midori Harris]

I'm pretty sure it's cvs usage; if anyone does editing, updating, and 
committing in the wrong order that's when things get lost.

This is the first time in quite a while that I've noticed changes getting 
lost, so I think it's pretty infrequent these days ... <knocks on wood>

m

On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Chris Mungall wrote:

>
> 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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