begin  quoting Michael O'Keefe as of Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 11:11:02AM -0700:
> >-Stewart "Haven't ever heard anything good about ClearCase" Stremler
> 
> Really ?
> I loved it.

Wow. Okay, now I _have_ heard someone say something good about
ClearCase.

(Of course, I've been hearing most of the rants lately from someone who
does development on an offline laptop.)

> I don't like "copy-to-local" CRM systems.
> With CC being NFS, you don't need to wait around while you come up to 
> date. You are always live (under the control of your client-spec, of course)

The upside of always being live is what? Every save can be undone? Or
does it force continuous integration?

> I loved that I can have multiple xterms up, and see the same code with 
> different viewspecs at the same time without doing anything other that 
> requesting different labels in this view.
 
....and taking up local disk space with the multiple versions.

For Very Large Projects, that's probably a good thing. :)

> That I can view any version of a file (in any branch) instantly by using 
> the backdoor '@@' directory is fabulous
 
How does that work? You cd into @@ and you see an exploded history?

> And I *REALLY* loved the time it cut down on building large systems 
> becoz of it's DO subsystem. Now that I'm using PerForce (a copy-to-local 
> CRM), if someone changes a major header, EVERYBODY has to rebuild :(
 
DO?

"Derived Object", perchance?

How about a day-in-the-life sort of example?

-Stewart "Every version management system should have a thick manual" Stremler

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