In article <mailman.3359.1371275633.3114.python-l...@python.org>, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Tim Delaney > <timothy.c.dela...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I can absolutely confirm how much ClearCase slows things down. I completely > > refused to use dynamic views for several reasons - #1 being that if you lost > > your network connection you couldn't work at all... > > And that right there is why modern source control systems are > distributed, not centralized. It's so much easier with git; we lost > our central hub at one point, and another dev and I simply pulled from > each other for a bit until we got a new Scaphio online. With > centralized version control, that would have basically meant a > complete outage until the new box was up. > > ChrisA The advantage of DVCS is that everybody has a full copy of the repo. The disadvantage of the DVCS is that every MUST have a full copy of the repo. When a repo gets big, you may not want to pull all of that data just to get the subtree you need. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
