On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 10:07:22PM +0100, Benjamin Pflugmann wrote:
> Hi.
>
> On Wed 2002-11-06 at 12:07:22 -0800, Zack Brown wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I thought it would be best to post something like this here for discussion
> > instead of just committing it. It fills in the section in Chapter 1 of the
> > book, dealing with the history of version control. It's not necessarily
> > finished, but I wonder if I'm going in the right direction.
> >
> > Comments?
>
> First, let me say, I like the direction. I really enjoyed reading it.
Cool!
> > + <para>while not perfect, this new situation at least allowed R to do
> > + meaningful work, without waiting for Q.</para>
>
> For my taste, that is a bit too theoretic for the history part. How
> about giving Q and R real names, at least?
OK.
>
> But, personally, I think that this kind of example is not needed in
> such an overview at all. A deeper understanding of CVS's working is
> not needed at this time, is it?
I'm happy to take that out if that's what folks want. For the record, my
thinking has been that to a good history of version control, the technical
details form a central part. I was planning on adding *more* technical
details to subsequent revisions, to elucidate how the features and
problems unfolded. Bad?
>
> [...]
> > + <para>These commercial <firstterm>version control systems</firstterm>
> > + did more than just solve the problems of CVS. They radically changed
> > + the way version control was handled. In the case of BitMover's
> > + BitKeeper product, the entire idea of a central repository was
> > + discarded in favor of a client-based system, in which each developer
> > + kept a full repository on their own computer. This allowed a
>
> You never mentioned that CVS repositories wouldn't be on their own
> computer. I think you somewhere went from local to remote repositories
> without explicitly mentioning this.
You caught me. This was going to be part of my
adding-more-technical-details revisions.
Thanks for the comments!
Zack
>
> HTH,
>
> Benjamin.
>
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Zack Brown
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