From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18030 invoked by alias); 11 Dec 2002 03:57:31 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 18022 invoked from network); 11 Dec 2002 03:57:30 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO disaster.jaj.com) (66.93.21.106) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 11 Dec 2002 03:57:30 -0000 Received: (from phil@localhost) by disaster.jaj.com (8.11.4/8.11.4) id gBB3vOx22927; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 22:57:24 -0500 Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 20:02:00 -0000 From: Phil Edwards To: "David S. Miller" Cc: mark@mark.mielke.cc, zack@codesourcery.com, jsm28@cam.ac.uk, wlandry@ucsd.edu, gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: source mgt. requirements solicitation Message-ID: <20021210225724.A22864@disaster.jaj.com> References: <87isy2mj1y.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com> <20021211034224.GA20375@mark.mielke.cc> <20021210.194105.61848558.davem@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20021210.194105.61848558.davem@redhat.com>; from davem@redhat.com on Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 07:41:05PM -0800 X-SW-Source: 2002-12/txt/msg00571.txt.bz2 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 -- 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