On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 09:44, Darren Kenny wrote: > CVS and SVN were designed with globally spread out developers in mind - > TW wasn't. I think > this is what makes them stronger candidates as a code management system > for OpenSolaris. they still require developers to either have write access to the main repository and put all their files there or make a big mess with creating a new repository for local files and merging between them every now and then.
please consider the (slightly newer) crop of tools that support really distributed work, eg. arch/bazaar, monotone, svk (there are more comprehensive lists, eg. http://www.venge.net/monotone/others.html) (summary of scenarios where distributed tools help and cvs|svn do not: - managing integration branches of some sorts, eg. Solaris (vs. opensolaris) - helping those people on the plane or some island with slow net access still work reasonably fast, by having a local storage to put their changes in instead of waiting >1 minute for each commit - sync can happen later, after work where waiting is not an issue or when getting fast net access again. ) patrick mauritz _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
