Re: Why does SCM have to be so ....... hard?
Re: Why does SCM have to be so ....... hard?
- Subject: Re: Why does SCM have to be so ....... hard?
- From: Wade Tregaskis <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 11:11:47 +1000
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?
Are there any viable products which do this today? I know of one
person who wrote a bridge for connecting multiple CVS repositories (on
remote machines) - which worked to a point - but I'm not aware of such
functionality present natively even in the commercial offerings...
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.
What you seem to be ignoring is the need for commit comments... what's
the point of having a thousand versions of a file if you can't possibly
find which one you want? And having to write a comment for every file
every time you save it seems very counter-productive, if you save
frequently as I (and I hope others) do.*
Granted, in the system you're looking for with your two-tier SCM you
could probably get away with no [or few] comments in your local
repository. But even though you could diff your latest against the
remote repository to remind yourself what changed, you may miss some of
the subtleties you've since forgotten.
Wade Tregaskis (aim & yahoo: wadetregaskis, icq: 40056898, msn & email:
email@hidden, jabber: email@hidden)
-- Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
* = I should say here that I used to save almost every line when using
XCode 1.0 through 1.2, but 1.5 has been pretty much flawless (in terms
of crashing). Since I've complained about XCode on-list before, it's
only fair that I now thank the XCode team for their work in 1.5 - I at
last am finally pretty happy with it (which, if you haven't picked up
on how cynical & pedantic I am, is quite an achievement). :)
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