source mgt. requirements solicitation

[David S. Miller]

   From: Phil Edwards <phil@jaj.com>
   Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 22:57:24 -0500

   > 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.
   
That's not distributed source management, that's "I copy the entire
master tree onto my computer."

If you make modifications to your local rsync'd master tree, you can't
transparently push those changes to other people unless you setup
anoncvs on your computer and tell them "use this as your master repo
instead of gcc.gnu.org to get my changes".

That's bolted onto the side, not part of the design.