[haiku-development] Re: Moving away from Subversion, pt. 2
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2010 23:07:53 +0200
Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2010-06-30 at 22:14:32 [+0200], Niels Reedijk <niels.reedijk@xxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> > Today I was thinking about when exactly it is useful to have the
> > full
> > history on your hard drive. I sort of came to the conclusion that
> > the
> > answer is probably none. (You don't need full history when you work
> > offline and commit).
> I think you're wrong. I don't see what wanting to look up the
> revision
> history of something has anything to do with whether I have an
> internet
> connection or not. I usually use the history when I stumble over code
> that
> I find odd or wonder why it was changed the way it was. This can
> happen
> whenever I'm working on something, be it with or without internet
> connection (e.g. at home or on the train).
I was too lazy to answer, but same thoughts here.
> Besides the probably most common use case of developers only having a
> single clone of the central repository, particularly kernel/driver
> developers might want to transfer changes to different machines for
> testing
> before committing to the main repository. That's currently quite
> painful
> with svn (usually means copying patches between the machines) and
> something
> our new development model respectively the new tool should support. I
> guess
> the three candidates do support that; I haven't looked at how
> conveniently
> they do, though.
Indeed, that would be nice.
Bye,
Axel.
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