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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