Re: Eric goes to lunch -- a decentralized-development user story

On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, Eric S. Raymond wrote:

> If it's going to walk like a local repo and quack like a local repo, I
> feel very strongly that it ought to *be* a local repo. Otherwise
> we'll just be inviting headaches at the places where these overlapping
> mechanisms rub together.
>
> (This is part of the reason I'm dubious about svk. It appears to me
> to be guilty of the same sin.)

Actually in SVK a local repo _is_ a local repo. It _may_ (or may not)
have some metadata in it that points to another repo from which it can
sync. The syncing bits are provided by the SVN::Mirror and VCP Perl
modules, and are not in fact part of the core SVK code. The core SVK code
is a VC system based on subversion that uses local repositories and its
own working copy code.

But you could create a local repo and start checking stuff into it without
ever syncing against an existing repo first.

-dave

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Received on Fri Sep 17 01:43:39 2004