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On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 22:23:29 +0200 Christian Parpart <trapni@g.o> |
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| On Monday 11 April 2005 8:26 am, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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| > On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 23:57:12 +0200 Christian Parpart |
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| > <trapni@g.o> |
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| > wrote: |
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| > | > SVN uses transactions and |
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| > | > changesets. These make a heck of a lot more sense if they're |
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| > | > done on a per project basis. |
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| > | reason? |
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| > Because you can pull out a meaningful and relevant changeset without |
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| > having to arse around with path prefixes. |
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| Do you have to? If so, why? |
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Well, surprisingly enough, one of the main reasons we use these version |
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control things is so that we can see *what changed*. It's a hell of a |
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lot easier to do this when you can just say "show me everything that |
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changed in the foo project between three days ago and today" rather than |
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having to worry about adding in extra selections to pick a project path. |
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| > | > Unlike with CVS, this makes a big difference -- SVN |
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| > | > revision IDs are actually meaningful, |
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| > | SVN repository IDs represent the state of the whole repository at |
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| > | a given time, nothing more or less. |
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| > Not repo IDs. Revision IDs. |
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| That's the one I meant. yeah. |
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And, said revision IDs are useful for keeping track of what's changed. |
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Or, at least, they are if you know that an update of 3 in the revision |
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number is equivalent to three changesets, which you don't if you use |
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multiple projects per repo. |
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| > | Hmm... besides, the ASF is just having a single repository for all |
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| > | their public projects (with about 1000+ contributors) w/o any |
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| > | problems. |
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| > So we should make the same mistakes as them? Sure, a single repo |
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| > would be usable, but multiple repos would be a heck of a lot better. |
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| Seriousely, this is plain low FUD unless you can give me a decent |
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| argument on why the ASF made a mistake here. |
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One big repository is harder to work with. It's that simple. |
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-- |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, shell tools) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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