On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 05:11:53PM -0700, Jon Watte wrote:
> I'm sure you understand and agree that Subversion will NOT be useful to a
> large organization/project until it implements this mode of operation. On
> the flip side, I entirely understand that the CVS model is initially much
> more convenient for programmers in small to medium sized projects, and
> the transition is just one of many you have to go through in order to be
> able to work on a larger scale.
I think you have your models reversed. A reserved checkout model has
horrible scaling problems - people end up tripping over themselves
because they are doing parallel development. User K in Chicago
'reserved' a file and didn't finish his changes or went on vacation,
but User G in SF wants to do another change in that same file while
User K holds the lock. Oops. So, you force User G to break the lock.
Reserved checkouts may make more sense in smaller projects (where
ownership is well-defined), but almost certainly has no place in
large projects where ownership isn't as well-defined or
enforced. -- justin
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Received on Sun Sep 29 02:29:03 2002