On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 6:30 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
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> Jeyanthan's comments below are very good. They don't mention the issues of a
> completely centralized system such as Subversion, which is that laptop or
> remote users cannot record changes locally without being connected to the
> centralized system.
Someone who hasn't used subversion might misunderstand that. You can
check out a working copy, disconnect and make changes - and even do a
limited set of versioning operations like diffs against the checked
out version while offline. The main limitation is that you can't
commit multiple versions while offline and you can only revert local
changes back to the checked out version - you only have the one copy
of the workspace and can't commit the changes in it until you can
connect back to the repository.
> A demo is trivial to set up with the existing free and open sourced binaries
> for evey major operating system. If you have *old* operating systems you
> need to support with the latest features, you may have a problem, but this
> is true of every modern source control system.
The main downside of free software is that you don't get a salesperson
to buy your lunch while showing you nice glossy pictures of the
product.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell_at_gmail.com
Received on 2012-03-02 14:56:34 CET