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Re: source mgt. requirements solicitation

On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 07:41:05PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> When the net goes down, I can't check RCS history and make diffs
> against older versions of files in the gcc tree.

I just rsync the repository and do everything but checkins locally.
Very very fast.

> With Bitkeeper I have all the revision history in my cloned tree so
> there is zero need for me to every go out onto the network to do work
> until I want to share my changes with other people.  This also
> decreases the load on the machine with the "master" repository.

So does the rsync-repo technique.


Phil

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I would therefore like to posit that computing's central challenge, viz. "How
not to make a mess of it," has /not/ been met.
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