Книга: Learning GNU Emacs, 3rd Edition
12.12 Using VC Effectively
12.12 Using VC Effectively
We urge those of you with prior version control experience to heed the following maxim: to use VC effectively, check in your changes early and often! Of course, when you are working as part of a team of developers, you do need to take care to check in only a consistent and working set of files each time. There's nothing quite equal to the frustration of discovering that you can no longer compile and test your own code because someone else has checked in a fragmentary or broken piece of theirs.
If you're used to version control interfaces that are as clumsy and difficult as bare SCCS, RCS, or—to a lesser extent—CVS, your reflexes may prevent you from getting the most leverage out of VC. You probably won't commit often; you're not used to being able to instantly get status reports on a whole subtree of files.
It's worth a little thought and effort to reeducate yourself. You'll find that, instead of being an irritating minor chore, version control under VC can be tremendously liberating. By checking changes in often, you'll find you can afford to experiment more, because you'll know how to revert to a known good state quickly if need be.
Оглавление книги
- 12.1 The Uses of Version Control
- 12.2 Version Control Concepts
- 12.3 How VC Helps with Basic Operations
- 12.4 Editing Comment Buffers
- 12.5 VC Command Summary
- 12.6 VC Mode Indicators
- 12.7 Which Version Control System?
- 12.8 Individual VC Commands
- 12.9 Customizing VC
- 12.10 Extending VC
- 12.11 What VC Is Not
- 12.12 Using VC Effectively
- 12.13 Comparing with Ediff
- Chapter 4. Using Buffers, Windows, and Frames
- Caveats using NAT
- Using Double Quotes to Resolve Variables in Strings with Embedded Spaces
- Data Binding Using the GridView Control
- Using the kill Command to Control Processes
- Installing Using a Network
- Using X
- Using a Display Manager
- Starting X from the Console by Using startx
- Using Fedora's switchdesk Client
- Using Environment Variables
- Using the Text Editors