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Re: Why does SCM have to be so ....... hard?
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Re: Why does SCM have to be so ....... hard?


  • Subject: Re: Why does SCM have to be so ....... hard?
  • From: Christoffer Lerno <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 15:17:48 +0200

Quite possibly I'm doing something seriously wrong. I just want things to work like this:

1. Creating a new file automatically adds it to my repository
2. Editing a file automatically checks it out.
3. Saving a file commits it to the repository
4. Removing a file from the project commits this change to repository

I can't seem to get that working. Instead I have to commit all and every change manually, which means the usefulness drops to almost nothing for me since it's a one person project.

On the other hand IntelliJ IDEA has SCM like this built in without having to fiddle anywhere.

Am I overlooking something?

Perhaps you are overlooking the fact that this would only be useful for single-person-projects and completely useless in a project with two or more developers?

Possibly, but looking at it it differently, let's say this mechanism was for a local SCM which then could connect itself to the "real" remote repository?


In other words, the local SCM would work like an undo-manager for whatever files you are working with. Locally you can keep the granularity of this "SCM" where every save is automatically considered a "version", whereas remotely you'd only commit "finished" changes.

I don't quite see why the current implementation would have a zero usefulness for you?

Well, it's a whole lot easier to simply duplicate my whole project directory when I have a finished version than work with CVS etc. I can just as easy run a diff on a whole directory.


Of course, if I would commit on a regular basis then it would be useful, but since you have to do all these things manually I am a whole lot less likely to actually get around to creating versions regularly.

/C

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