From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: VCS comparison table Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:10:22 +0200 Message-ID: <200610181510.23095.jnareb@gmail.com> References: <9e4733910610140807p633f5660q49dd2d2111c9f5fe@mail.gmail.com> <45360DAE.8000702@op5.se> <20061018124320.GT75501@over-yonder.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Andreas Ericsson , Aaron Bentley , Linus Torvalds , Carl Worth , bazaar-ng@lists.canonical.com, git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Oct 18 15:10:17 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GaBBW-0004Fp-Ot for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:10:15 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030272AbWJRNKK convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Oct 2006 09:10:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030273AbWJRNKK (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Oct 2006 09:10:10 -0400 Received: from qb-out-0506.google.com ([72.14.204.230]:49858 "EHLO qb-out-0506.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030272AbWJRNKI (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Oct 2006 09:10:08 -0400 Received: by qb-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id p36so702088qba for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 06:10:07 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=nqC/yVBunwoMR+iAycsGiB/yM8Nz9kFv1YqRtaIsKFtEldj8YOgItuAWm2gbI3I37xTXgr/Ipq61EXPyj0tqCz/qpsHo6Hthb3XjOcb20OOcNqOwiifn8UYh1Mj9AAnHEDUxDAC8DK897qvtrjChJP/80KsTxv7MCF/medmd+6Y= Received: by 10.66.249.11 with SMTP id w11mr11731552ugh; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 06:09:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from host-81-190-17-207.torun.mm.pl ( [81.190.17.207]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id z40sm918599ugc.2006.10.18.06.09.46; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 06:09:47 -0700 (PDT) To: "Matthew D. Fuller" User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 In-Reply-To: <20061018124320.GT75501@over-yonder.net> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Dnia =B6roda 18. pa=BCdziernika 2006 14:43, Matthew D. Fuller napisa=B3= : > On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 01:19:10PM +0200 I heard the voice of > Andreas Ericsson, and lo! it spake thus: > >=20 > > It's just that we have this one place where gitweb is installed, > > which management likes whereas devs don't have that on their laptop= =2E > > It's also convenient to have one place to find all changes rather > > than pulling from 1-to-N different people just to have a look at > > what they've done. >=20 > I think this just by itself lends support to: >=20 > > The point I'm trying to make here is that the star config might be > > the most common case today because >=20 > c) Stars work well as a mental model for humans. >=20 > Heck, in large, Linux is star-ish. There s "2.6.1", "2.6.2", etc; > that's a trunk. Any time you have releases, you're establishing a > "master" branch. For most people using Linux, there's a trunk, > whether it's the kernel.org trunk, or the "What Redhat ships" trunk, > etc. The closer you drill to the day-to-day work on the kernel, the > farther it gets from trunks, but if it were full-mesh at all levels I > don't think it would be nearly as usable for regular computing tasks > as it is. No, it is not. If you consider only published Linus repository, and private repositories of other people, it usually is star-ish (although mentioned situaltion where somebody else repository took place of cente= r of star-ish configuration wouldn't be possible in tru star-ish model). But please take note of stable repository, -mm repository; the changes are exchanged there and back again. And "What Redhat ships" is AFAIK mix of different repositories and own patches.=20 =20 --=20 Jakub Narebski Poland