On 20-Jul-07, at 11:23 AM, patrick wrote:
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> Toby Thain wrote:
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>> On 20-Jul-07, at 10:03 AM, patrick wrote:
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>> Problem of education? If they don't know what kind of system they're
>> using, this might be the least of your problems...
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> please not the "if they don't know how to use it they're not
> worthy" hammer.
> did you realy not even once add something that you regretted
> afterwards?
I don't think I've ever had to do this on a production repo.
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> Toby Thain wrote:
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>> I don't want to pre-empt the experts, but I think a rationale against
>> such a thing can be made. For one thing it's a powerful regret-
>> generator (dangerous tool, think rm -rf but on your repo(!). Typing
>> error?) It -should- be hard to destroy data; a version control system
>> is designed to keep it safe. It's a bit like asking for openable
>> windows on a space capsule.
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>>
> 1. so why does rm -rf exist then?
The filesystem isn't a VCS. If it was, we wouldn't need a VCS too :-)
> 2. that's what backups are for. (and yeah, they are no fun if they
> get too
> big...)
Right. Time down, time to restore, and all because the admin's finger
slipped. Which is the lesser of the two evils?
But seriously. The *first time* you see junk in the repo, you start
educating your users. If they're not educable, perhaps they're not
competent to be doing what they're apparently doing.
--Toby
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> patrick
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