On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 10:10 AM, Barrie Treloar <[email protected]> wrote:
> So that means your working copy reflects what stream you pulled down > from the server. > And the only way to switch that work is to contact the server again. > DVCS has the version control files for everything locally, so you can > work disconnected *yay* and switch branches, etc without needing a > network connection. > I think that there is a LARGE difference here in the way that the OS world and the Corporate World work. If you'd seen some of the abuses of repositories that I'd seen, then you'd not be wanting to pull down the *entire* (10Gb+) repository. In corporate world, you are normally connected to <whatever>. So it's rarely an issue. For distributed OS based work, that model does not apply. -Chris PS: Does ClearCase Multi Site count as DVCS? :-) Or is it just repo to repo replication behind the scenes? :-)
