Re: VCS comparison table

Dnia środa 18. października 2006 14:43, Matthew D. Fuller napisał:

On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 01:19:10PM +0200 I heard the voice of
Andreas Ericsson, and lo! it spake thus:

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It's just that we have this one place where gitweb is installed,
which management likes whereas devs don't have that on their laptop.
It's also convenient to have one place to find all changes rather
than pulling from 1-to-N different people just to have a look at
what they've done.

I think this just by itself lends support to:

quoted

The point I'm trying to make here is that the star config might be
the most common case today because

c) Stars work well as a mental model for humans.

Heck, in large, Linux is star-ish.  There s "2.6.1", "2.6.2", etc;
that's a trunk.  Any time you have releases, you're establishing a
"master" branch.  For most people using Linux, there's a trunk,
whether it's the kernel.org trunk, or the "What Redhat ships" trunk,
etc.  The closer you drill to the day-to-day work on the kernel, the
farther it gets from trunks, but if it were full-mesh at all levels I
don't think it would be nearly as usable for regular computing tasks
as it is.

No, it is not. If you consider only published Linus repository, and
private repositories of other people, it usually is star-ish (although
mentioned situaltion where somebody else repository took place of center
of star-ish configuration wouldn't be possible in tru star-ish model).
But please take note of stable repository, -mm repository; the changes
are exchanged there and back again. And "What Redhat ships" is AFAIK
mix of different repositories and own patches. 
 
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Jakub Narebski
Poland