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CVS was called the “concurrent version system” because it did not lock files on checkout. Nor did svn. Perforce does.
by fanf2 1y ago
CVS was called the “concurrent version system” because it did not lock files on checkout. Nor did svn. Perforce does.
- rswail 1y agoTrue dat, my mistake. That was its major feature, from memory though it still used the same reversed diff file format?
- ack_complete 1y agoPerforce does not lock files on checkout unless you have the file specifically configured to enforce exclusive locking in the file's metadata or depot typemap.