From jay.kominek@colorado.edu Mon Jul 09 08:21:53 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: kominek@ucsub.colorado.edu X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 9 Jul 2001 15:21:52 -0000 Received: (qmail 48701 invoked from network); 9 Jul 2001 15:20:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 9 Jul 2001 15:20:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ucsub.colorado.edu) (128.138.129.12) by mta3 with SMTP; 9 Jul 2001 15:20:46 -0000 Received: from ucsub.colorado.edu (kominek@ucsub.colorado.edu [128.138.129.12]) by ucsub.colorado.edu (8.11.2/8.11.2/ITS-5.0/student) with ESMTP id f69FKjH03461 for ; Mon, 9 Jul 2001 09:20:45 -0600 (MDT) Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 09:20:45 -0600 (MDT) To: Subject: RE: [lojban] NT translation In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Jay Kominek On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, And Rosta wrote: > I've seen these baffling CVS messages appear on Lojban list & I delete them > with a certain thankfulness that they appear to be messages I don't feel > obliged to read. > > But I confess I don't understand anything in your message at all, except for > the second para, tho here I can't see how, if I pick a chapter and go for it, > I can avoid doing one that someone else has already done. Is there an online > idiot's guide to all this? It's about a decade since I had the least pretensions > to techspertise. The entire purpose of CVS is to alleviate this concern, which is why it is being used. (As much as certain parties might like to accuse Robin of choosing some arcane tool solely for the purpose of confusing them, CVS is the only non-expensive tool which meets the requirements for the task. (And I've used some of the expensive ones, and they're worse than CVS, trust me.)) CVS allows multiple parties to work on a single file, and as long as they weren't working on identical portions of the file, they'll never know about any other people working on it. Given the length of a book of the bible, and the few other people working on the translation, if you randomly pick a spot in the bible to start working on, there is little chance that someone else will be working on it at the same time. Further, even if two people do work on the same file at the same time, CVS gives the second person to save their work the opportunity to reconcile his changes with the changes of the first person. (Assuming CVS itself isn't able to reconcile the changes. Thats CVS' other feature, it has conflict resolution algorithms.) Again, there is all kinds of information about CVS at www.cvshome.org. If you've read at least a reasonable subset of the documentation presented there, and you're still lost, email Robin or I. Please. - Jay Kominek Waiting Is.