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Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like
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Sam Steingold |
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Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like |
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Sun, 06 Jan 2008 23:52:53 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> * Richard Stallman <address@hidden> [2008-01-06 23:18:05 -0500]:
>
> "the current development version" is not a concept for git. No
> repository is special as far as git is concerned. The "current
> development version" is a social, not a technical concept. For example,
> the git maintainer was off-line unexpectedly for some months recently.
> Somebody else took over seamlessly by collecting, arranging and
> coordinating patches on the git list into _his_ repository.
>
> With CVS, people can get the current version of every program on
> savannah in a uniform way. What you say seems to imply that that is
> not possible with git. That seems like a big step backwards.
No, this just means that if savannah goes down, nobody can get emacs
from CVS (people can't work on emacs, can't exchange patches &c).
with DVCS, someone can announce that he is stepping in for savannah and
people would hardly notice other than by having to give a different
argument to "git pull" and "git push".
Note however that with CVS, getting CVS head and building it is hardly
more expensive than downloading a source tarball - wrt both bandwidth
and disk space. With git, the situation is vastly different: you cannot
just get the head, you always get the whole change history, so instead
of 40MB, you will be getting and storing 200MB. This may not be a big
deal these days for many people, but it might be a showstopper for some.
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- Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like, (continued)
- Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like, Richard Stallman, 2008/01/04
- Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like, David Kastrup, 2008/01/04
- Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like, Richard Stallman, 2008/01/05
- Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like, David Kastrup, 2008/01/05
- Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like, Richard Stallman, 2008/01/06
- Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like, David Kastrup, 2008/01/06
- Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like, Richard Stallman, 2008/01/06
- Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like, dhruva, 2008/01/06
- Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like,
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- Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like, dhruva, 2008/01/07
- Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like, David Kastrup, 2008/01/07
- Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like, Stefan Monnier, 2008/01/07
- Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like, David Kastrup, 2008/01/07
- Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like, Stefan Monnier, 2008/01/07
- Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like, David Kastrup, 2008/01/07
- Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like, CHENG Gao, 2008/01/07
- Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/01/07
- Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like, CHENG Gao, 2008/01/07
- Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like, Mike Mattie, 2008/01/08