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Date:      Mon, 29 Aug 2011 14:34:13 +0200
From:      Philip Paeps <philip@freebsd.org>
To:        perryh@pluto.rain.com
Cc:        vadim_nuclight@mail.ru, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Official git export
Message-ID:  <3420B331-C697-468A-80BA-B31C33804710@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <4e5ba9c3.bzHIw1KEy8R2QcK7%perryh@pluto.rain.com>
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On 29 Aug 2011, at 17:01, perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote:
> Vadim Goncharov <vadim_nuclight@mail.ru> wrote:
>> May be FreeBSD should really write it's own VCS, just as Git was
>> modelled after proprietary BitKeeper?..
> 
> Good luck getting agreement on what to model it on :)
> 
> Personally I would suggest ClearCase as a model, but that's largely
> because I'm familiar with it.

Wait...  you're familiar with ClearCase and you want something that's
modelled like it?  Most people familiar with ClearCase consider it to
be a dire warning of what a VCS can become, not an example. :)

I think any system where the server has to keep track of every client's
files is pretty much obsolete in 2011.  It scales unbelievably poorly.

 - Philip

-- 
Philip Paeps
Senior Reality Engineer
Ministry of Information




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