On Oct 3, 5:00 pm, "Brian Mathis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 5:24 PM, dd-b <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > For me, source control doesn't address the same problem. I'm using
> > source control on my puppet files collection, but I periodically need
> > access to old versions intermediate between when I have now and what I
> > last committed. Except for Sun's old (and otherwise disastrous) NSE
> > and a small-company product called DRTS that I don't think exists any
> > more either, I haven't run into a version-control system that handles
> > that case decently.
>
> It sounds like you need to be committing more often. There should
> never be a time when you have a config that you find useful (ie:
> something that you are satisfied is working) that is not committed.
> If you find that you need revisions that are "in between" two commits,
> then you didn't commit often enough.
Sometimes I need access to versions more recent than the last commit
during periods when the code wasn't even compiling cleanly (never mind
"working") -- clearly such code should *not* be checked in to the
public repository! (The thing with NSE and DRTS was that you had a
private repository as well as one or more layers of public ones, so I
could check into my private one as often as you (and I) think is
useful without exposing my intermediate states to the world. I've
since my previous post seen that GIT, which is actually current and
even relevant to Puppet, may also support that working style.)
Also, I have to make a conscious decision to commit, and it's easier
to just version the saves than to do manual commits and make up
comments and so forth that frequently.
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