In a message dated: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 13:53:44 CST
Florin Iucha said:
>> The fact that you can access a repository directly on local disk was a
>> concession to a *much* less common use case: the poor student who
>> just wants to use svn to privately version stuff in her home directory
>> on some big unix machine on which she has no rights. Your use case is
>> unusual too: it's not so common to have 15 developers all sharing a
>> single disk.
>
>It is common at every UNIX shop I have worked.
>All the developers have a PC for Office which also runs Exceed. All
>the work is done on big Solaris/AIX/SGI servers.
Why not just run Linux on the desktop and NFS mount the file system?
It seems that would be a lot less of a hassle than dealing with
Exceed! (cheaper too :)
However, I think what Ben was referring to was more the 'distributed
development model', which is which CVS's sweet spot. It was
specifically designed to deal with the use case of distributed
developers *not* sharing the same disk, which is also where SVN is
headed. For locations where developers are all on the same local
network, sharing local disk space, products like ClearCase seem to be
far more prevalent (and expensive!).
If you're users are all on PCs with Exceed, wouldn't it make more
sense for them to use something like SVN where they can check out the
code from the 'big Solaris/AIX/SGI servers' to their local disk, then
check in to merge with others? They must have gobs of spare disk
space on their local drives?
>A good solution might be to get replicated repositories working.
>Whomever wants a local copy of the repository can get a slave on his
>machine. At that point all the duplication of files can go away.
While I agree with the idea of getting replicated repos working, I
fail to see how that solves the current dilemma of having several
people who share a disk not duplicating data. If they share a disk,
and clone the master repo, now you have 16 repos floating around plus
15 working copies. As it is now, you have 1 repo with 15 working
copies. Did I miss something somewhere?
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