Hi again-
I have several years of experience with Clearcase from
a previous employer, but at my present job I am
looking to introduce the excellent svn to a CM-weak
organization.
One advantage I had w/ CC was the ability to draw (on
a board, for example) elements with branches and merge
arrows to other branches with labels by the versions
of elements that got labeled. It was very convenient
because you could give a visual picture to a manager
(or newbie) and have them grasp what was going on.
There was also a tool (xlsvtree) that displayed the
same representation, so that a user did not have to
think of what was really going on inside (i.e.,
branches on elements were *really* just directories
hidden from casual view), and could just concentrate
on getting the correct element to the correct branch.
I notice that the images in the svn book at redbean do
not have such a straight-forward (at least to me)
representation, especially when they discuss how svn
performs a branch by "copying" to a branch "directory"
and then you use that directory.
What trouble does one get into when trying to draw a
pictoral representation of what is going on with svn
(creating branches for example, that get merged into
other branches and then back to the trunk), using a
Clearcase style format.
I am suspicois that my familiarity with 1 CM tool is
biasing my ability to explain in simple terms "how to
use the tool", especially when a graphical display
tool does not yet exist to supplement any explanation.
Comments? Help?
Thanks.
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Received on Sun Oct 3 22:52:35 2004