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Re: [TECHWR-L] - What are your experiences with version control

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Neilson)
Thu Dec 11 10:54:52 2025

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Did that by hand 40 years ago. ONE person owned the material to be 
changed, and arranged by polite conversation for outside changes that 
needed to be integrated into the owner's work.

On 12/10/25 18:14, Tony Chung wrote:
> 
> Regarding merge conflicts, the only solution for that is to merge 
> commits to different files. You don’t need an automated locking system. 
> Just a way to communicate that writer A is working on this block of 
> files and writer 1 on another set.

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