On Fri, August 17, 2007 2:33 pm, Andrew Lentvorski wrote: >> Every decent version control system I'm aware of allows merging >> between branches. I would think that this sort of thing would be >> *less* likely with a distributed SCM. > > That's not the (possibly unclear) point. > > The advantage is that I can share my *repository* (not just patches) > without needing to have a central point that we can both log into. > > Now, to be fair, I think subversion can do this if we both have clones > of the original repository.
Another problem Linus brings up with the SVN model of subgroups and branches is that all those branches on the central SVN server need to avoid name clashes. If you have 100 groups doing their own testing branch then you'll see stuff like this on the central SVN server: $REPO/branches/secondfloor/networkinggroup/room421/testing and $REPO/branches/testing14521 With DSCM each of the 100 groups just has their own local trunk called testing. :) Chris -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
