On Monday, December 14, 2015 at 3:19:07 AM UTC-6, Magnus Therning wrote:
>
>
> Ray Joseph writes: 
> > I would like to see what options there are for the 
> > workspace/repository architecture in an engineering company. 
> > Considerations: 
> > 
> > 1)  400 contributors 
> > 
> > 2)  20 projects on going at any time 
> > 
> > 3)  Contributors are typically on more than one project 
> > 
> > 4)  Artifacts / properties 
> > 
> >    a) CAD drawings with no external references 
> > 
> >    b) CAD drawings with external references (other drawings, 
> >    spreadsheets) 
> > 
> >    c) Spreadsheets (some used to drive drawings and datasheets) 
> > 
> >    d) Device datasheets 
> > 
> >    e) Specifications 
> > 
> >    f) Reports 
> > 
> > 5)  We currently have 5 offices across the globe ( 4 in the US). 
>
> I think you first of all have to ask yourself the following question: 
>
> - Why (distributed & concurrent) version control? 
>
> A few answers to the question for SW engineering are: 
>
> 1. We have a need to support multiple released versions of the software 
> concurrently. 
>
> 2. Each member of the team needs to be free to make changes in any file, 
> no matter what other members of the team are working on.  (In other 
> words, develops must be able to make changes to the same file 
> concurrently.) 
>
> 3. We can use version control to help diagnose issues with the code 
> (e.g. `git bisect`). 
>
> There are many more possible answers, but I hope you get the gist by now 
> :) 
>
> Another consideration is also that many of the version control tools 
> that were developed for SW take advantage of source code being plain 
> text (this is almost universally the case).  There are well-know 
> algorithms for diffing and merging plain text.  It looks to me like you 
> are not dealing with plain text files in which case you need to look 
> into diffing and merging of the files you are planning to put into git. 
> (In my experience this is where the value of using a VCS tool for 
> non-text files *really* drop.) 
>
> /M 
>

  

Magnus,

Thank you for the thoughtful response.  While at first I stumble over your 
not answering my question, patience lead me to more carefully consider your 
comments.


The SW approach is significantly different than I am used to in a ‘dumb 
steal’ (DS) engineering environment.  It would be a huge step for just my 
company of 200 users to be swayed be one individual to change their 
fundamental practices; but I am open to great challenges.  


The differences in the two engineering types (SW & DS) are not that great 
and the tools and artifacts are only abstractly equivalent.  Still, my 
fundamental functional challenge is the size of the repository.  Each time 
a repository transaction occurs, work would stop due to the large size (100 
GB).  So I wonder if there is some way to segment or fragment a repository 
so an artifact that needs to be worked can be pulled with only its minimum 
set of related artifacts.  


Ray 

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