> > On Jan 28, 2011, at 7:40 AM, Neil Brewitt wrote: > > I'm surprised that Clearcase hasn't gotten its own pile of > love here. Sure, git and all of the other bitkeeper clones > are their own tiny special snowflakes that you need to go to > reeducation camp before you can be made pure enough to use, but > at least they're only moderately hateful as software and you > don't have to use a special filesystem to get at your source code. > > About all that can be said in favor of clearcase is that the > environments where you find it are so monumentally fucked up > that it doesn't really matter how horrid the version control > is, because the time you lose there is noise compared to the > time you lose waiting for the broken build system to reach > the typo you left 115 minutes into the build process. > >
We were holding off on Clearcase because even the memory of it dredges up a soul crippling pain and agony, much like having the skin pulled of your body with little hooks. And that's after 10 years of therapy..... Gerry Lawrence [email protected] (408) 255-2413
