On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, Russ Allbery wrote: > Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > In other words, a distributed VCS allows all parties to manage their own > > repositories equally, and the project can nominate one of them the > > "official" central repository, without impacting everyone's ability to > > communicate changes between other repositories. > > This may not be the most popular opinion, particularly among fans of > distributed VCSes (and I do understand the merits), but wrapping your mind > around the distributed model isn't easy. I can explain to sysadmins who > have never used a VCS before but who have compiled software and can work > on Debian packages how to use Subversion, but explaining bzr feels rather > intimidating.
" You have a central entity, be it a person (the project leader for example) or a bot, which has write access to the main repository. Everyone sends commits (working changesets) to this person/bot, for them to get merged to the main repository. Everyone has a local read-only copy of the main repository that they can use even while offline (which they sync to the main repository every now and then). Everyone has a local read-write repository that they use for ongoing work, even while offline. It is this work that, when deemed ready, is sent as a changeset for inclusion in the main repository. " What IS difficult about it? It is exactly how the Linux kernel is managed, only they have various layers of "project leaders" and no bots. Nobody in the system administrator, development or operation areas where I work would have too much difficulty grasping the basic idea, and it wouldn't take much time to explain the specifics (repository mirrors, etc). Whatever the issues of svn versus bzr are, difficulty of grasping the bzr way of doing things shouldn't be one of them. Since bzr (and other arch derivates) have the benefit of NEVER forgeting which changesets are in a tree, I prefer them over any other distributed system. If anyone knows of other distributed system that saw the light and implemented this, please let me know. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
