source mgt. requirements solicitation

[Phil Edwards]

On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 07:58:36PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
>    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."

I'm not claiming otherwise.  I'm simply offering a tip to make life easier
for current users in the current situation.  What I said is still true
with regards to the paragraph I quoted.


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.
                                                 - Edsger Dijkstra, 1930-2002