[Gllug] Introduction (not really relevant to anything, just saying hello)

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 07:22:25PM +0100, Christian Smith wrote:
> 
> I've never used Arch, and I know some people rave about it, but I just
> don't see the great benefit in distributed repositories. Perhaps 5-10
> years ago when the world wasn't so well (inter)connected, but now?

There are several scenarios where this is useful:

 * You're not on the main project team and want to maintain
   your own private branch with some patches & keep in sync
   with main development. Archs distributed repos makes this
   considerably easier than CVS.
   
 * I do alot of work on a laptop & while onclient sites
   I only have 9600 baud diaup via my bluetooth phone
   so connecting to a remote repository is a non starter.
 
 * Even in the office with a broadband connection, telcos screw
   things up periodically or the company VPN dies. Without a
   disributed repository my development is severly impacted.
   
> Averyone should avoid ClearCase like the plague, and not just 'cos it's
> expensive. Dynamic views sound really good on paper, but in practice,
> well, it's not a big win, especially when you require filesystem drivers
> to implement it.

Amen to that. The version control featureset is really pretty
lame. The kernel module crashes /all/ the time, particuarly
if you're on a NFS mount. If you really want to spend big bucks
on version control use BitKeeper or Perforce. Having said that
there is little compelling reason to do that when you've CVS,
Subversion & Arch to choose from (not even counting Aegis, SVK
and Monotone!).

Dan.
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