Lazarus effect...

Lazarus effect...

Posted Apr 30, 2004 20:33 UTC (Fri) by taniwha (guest, #49)
Parent article: CinePaint: The GIMP Goes Hollywood (O'ReillyNet)

Yes, that's one of the beauties of CVS (or any halfway decent revision control system (subversion evangelists etc pipe down:), for that matter): once code has been committed to the repository, it will (in theory, anyway, there are ways) never die, even if it's backed out 5 seconds later. You can even "delete" dropped features from the code without them really dieing thanks to CVS' history. It just takes somebody having the gumption to go through the revival ritual(s) (using CVS' merging feature does seem to require blood and virgins, etc:).

Kind of makes me think of vampires (recently watched a vampire anime series, so maybe "Alucard" would work too:)

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