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

[Bruce Richardson]

On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 10:29:14AM +0100, Daniel wrote:
> 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!).

I don't think the kernel team will be moving to Arch in its current
state and that isn't just because of inertia.  AIUI, Bitkeeper has a
similar design to Arch in that everybody has their own independent
repository but Bitkeeper also provides built-in mechanisms for defining
the relationship between those repositorys (that is to say, it allows an
arbitrary heirarchy to be defined) and for controlling the way they are
synched.  

Bitkeeper does a long of things that you have to implement manually with
Arch.  For instance, it can automatically generate a changeset between
your repository and that of the upstream maintainer and e-mail it to the
maintainer.  That's a fiddly manual operation in Arch.  These things
aren't trivial but real productivity enhancers.

-- 
Bruce

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