On Jul 17, 2005, at 3:38 AM, Suu Quan wrote:
> Newbie here.
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> Background: our shop is Clearcase/UCM, and it’s not working
> optimally for us -> investigating alternatives. One question:
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> Situation: Our development teams (300 developers) are split 30%
> USA, 70% India, over a not too fast network. I wouldn’t call it
> slow, but it’s not super fast. (I’ve worked at 50% USA, 30%
> Singapore, 20% Gemany situation, thus they were working 24 hours a
> day). So, my situation is not unique.
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> If we have a single repository, say in the USA, then developers in
> other continents will have to deal with our –not too fast, but
> decent- network. Of course, one solution is to upgrade the networ$$$k.
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> If we have distributed repositories, then developers access a local
> network (faster) and can also take advantage of the work done by
> other teams.
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> I’ve gone thru the svn book and there is no talk about this topic.
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> Question is: what is SVN solution for teams working over long
> distance?
My company just switch to SVN (from CVS) recently. The switch is
still not completed and we are still in trial run. I think my
management will decide on SVN soon.
Our server is on DSL, 512K download, 256K upload, dynamic IP. We now
have 16 repositories out of 67 on SVN and our development teams
spread in Malaysia, China, Austria and Russia. Sometimes in Taiwan
and Hong Kong as well. 800+ revisions daily. The largest repository
is 12GB of source including revisions.
We have no problem with speed. Sometimes, we can have a quick coffee
and do some stretching during SVN access. :)
We are happy.
Best regards,
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beautiful sunset." -- Adrian Hoe inspired by Michal Nowak, June 15 2004
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Received on Sun Jul 17 12:14:58 2005