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Re: Notes from the version control BOF at the summit
* Walter Landry:
> Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> wrote:
>> * Walter Landry:
>>
>> >> * The tool must be around for a while, and continue to be supported
>> >> We don't want to have to change again, at least not for a while.
>> >
>> > Define "a while". Has svk been around "a while"?
>>
>> No, it's still experimental technology. Even tla is still in this
>> category.
>
> That seems like you're ruling out almost all of the free version
> control systems. You'll only be left with Aegis and Vesta, which
> probably won't work for other reasons.
>
> Or when you say experimental, do you mean experimental work-flows?
I mean "experimental" as in "simply aborts for some common usage
errors, without supplying a proper diagnostic, and leaving behind
something in horribly inconsistent state". Things have already
improved for common codepaths, though.
In addition, I've got a hunch that arch is conceptually on the right
track, but has got a few design warts that cannot be addressed without
giving up backwards compatibility.
> Subversion has a lot of new code, but the work-flow is basically the
> same as CVS.
It's mainly an implementation issue for me, not the work-flow per se.
tla has many nice features (including its merge tracking), and I can
teach people the new command set, but I don't want to annoy them with
tla internals to a point at which they can manually recover from most
errors on their own. And I'm not always around to do it for them.
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