From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kevin Smith Subject: Re: Last mile to 1.0? Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 10:47:16 -0400 Message-ID: <42E25874.2090201@qualitycode.com> References: <7vwtnqhcfb.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <20050723085031.GD3255@mythryan2.michonline.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Jul 23 16:48:07 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DwLIJ-0000az-9b for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 23 Jul 2005 16:48:03 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261748AbVGWOrz (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Jul 2005 10:47:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261754AbVGWOry (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Jul 2005 10:47:54 -0400 Received: from deuterium.rootr.net ([203.194.209.160]:48906 "EHLO vulcan.rootr.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261748AbVGWOry (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Jul 2005 10:47:54 -0400 Received: from [192.168.15.100] (186-49.35-65.tampabay.res.rr.com [65.35.49.186]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by vulcan.rootr.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 360983C09; Sat, 23 Jul 2005 14:47:47 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050404) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: Ryan Anderson In-Reply-To: <20050723085031.GD3255@mythryan2.michonline.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Ryan Anderson wrote: > Git falls into the category of distributed source code management tools, > similar to Arch or Darcs (or, in the commercial world, BitKeeper). This > means that every working directory is a full-fledged repository with > full revision tracking capabilities. That's not actually what "distributed" means. There are several distributed SCM tools[1] that store repo information outside the actual working directory. Perhaps that last sentence could be something like "This means that each developer has a local full-fledged repository with full revision tracking capabilities, not dependent on network access to a central server." I'm sure there are better wordings, but I hate to point out an problem without offering at least one possible improvement. Kevin [1] I believe that ArX, monotone, codeville, and svk all fall into this category. Possibly even Arch itself, although I haven't researched that.