On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 10:45:48PM +0200, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
> > I'm not sure what you mean here. There is social convention
> > ("venge.net:5253 is the server everyone working on branch
> > net.venge.monotone generally uses"), but no more.
>
> So when you work on branch net.venge.monotone, you use server
> venge.net:5253, right? You're mapping that branch to this server.
>
> The fact that you do the mapping manually (``social convention'')
> rather than having automated tools to do it is pretty much irrelevant.
Well, it just depends on, relative to what? :-) Some people could
choose to use a different server, if they felt like it; maybe for load
balancing or something.
> > I think I might have mentioned already how that server was down for
> > a week, and it didn't affect us at all?
>
> Yes, and what that probably means is that the Monotone model is
> sufficiently well designed to allow you to change the mapping between
> branches and ``canonical'' servers without major disruption.
Umm, okay, sure. If you want to use the words that way, then, it's
fine... :-) it just seems a little strange to me, since there is no
"mapping" stored anywhere, and nothing needs to be "changed" except
people's habits ("start running 'sync foo.net' instead of 'sync
bar.net'").
-- Nathaniel
--
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see Him if you don't struggle to get them right. -- Stephen Jay Gould
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