Re: Merits of ClearCase

2009-12-14 Thread Dave Korn
Eric Blake wrote: > Finally, I feel justified continuing to argue the merits of programs offered > as > part of the cygwin distribution on the cygwin mailing list, but I don't think > it is appropriate to argue the merits of proprietary non-cygwin programs on > the > cygwin list. It's not

Re: Merits of ClearCase

2009-12-14 Thread Eric Blake
Marc Girod gmail.com> writes: > Renaming a label type is an O(0) operation. There's no such thing as O(0). > It doesn't depend on the number of labels of that type applied. Just because renaming a label is O(1) doesn't make applying the label in the first place O(1). I want a VCS that tracks

Re: Merits of ClearCase

2009-12-14 Thread Marc Girod
Eric Blake wrote: > > That's a workaround, not a solution. Any VCS that requires an O(n) (n as > the number of files being labeled) labeling post-processing pass in order > to create enough records in the database to track commits atomically, when > there are O(1) solutions like git where commi

Re: Merits of ClearCase

2009-12-14 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 12/14/2009 07:21 AM, Eric Blake wrote: That's a workaround, not a solution. Any VCS that requires an O(n) (n as the number of files being labeled) labeling post-processing pass in order to create enough records in the database to track commits atomically, when there are O(1) solutions like g

Re: Merits of ClearCase

2009-12-14 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 12/14/2009 07:21 AM, Eric Blake wrote: That's a workaround, not a solution. Any VCS that requires an O(n) (n as the number of files being labeled) labeling post-processing pass in order to create enough records in the database to track commits atomically, when there are O(1) solutions like g

Re: Merits of ClearCase

2009-12-14 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Marc Girod on 12/14/2009 7:11 AM: > It is trivial to get atomicity of publication in ClearCase (within one vob): > you rename a label type. That's a workaround, not a solution. Any VCS that requires an O(n) (n as the number of files bein

Merits of ClearCase (was: Looking for the 'stdout' of a Windows application)

2009-12-14 Thread Marc Girod
Eric Blake wrote: > > In my opinion, the MVFS file system is a piece of trash. It has so many > corner cases that intentionally _break_ POSIX rules and thus get in the > way of normal assumptions about how file systems should work > Maybe. The question is: is it worth it? I believe it is. Eri