Re: [Gnu-arch-users] making a public mirror

[Tom Lord]

    > From: Dustin Sallings <address@hidden>

    > On Monday, Sep 15, 2003, at 02:04 US/Pacific, Andrew Suffield wrote:

    > > You'll eventually understand why this is _preferable_ to working in
    > > the same archive after you've used it for a while.

I think that that's often, but not always true.    As an example, the
"mainline" archive of a busy project like GCC is not likely to be
managed by a single person.


    >   The part that I don't understand is how you deal with a large number 
    > of developers.  Well, not even large...for example, my group at work 
    > has five people in it.  If we only have read-only access to each 
    > others' archives, does that mean that each person is responsible for 
    > integrating all of the changes from everybody else?  If so, that seems 
    > like it would be a bit of a burden.

Hardly -- star-merge is very good for this kind of situation.

You certainly can have all of your group working on a shared version
and consequently, all using the same archive.    

You might also take a hybrid approach:  having everyone share
responsibility for the "hub" of a "hub and spokes" (aka star-topology)
arrangement of branches -- but also doign some day-to-day or
hour-to-hour work on private branches.

-t