Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 20:03:32 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net> To: Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> Cc: vadim_nuclight@mail.ru, philip@freebsd.org, perryh@pluto.rain.com, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Official git export Message-ID: <20110830010332.GK2493@over-yonder.net> In-Reply-To: <4E5C364D.7070904@freebsd.org> References: <35765857-1314243257-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-329610575-@b2.c15.bise7.blackberry> <CAJ-Vmo=v0UkQarauKrvWKdjMTC81BwXmyhU__rnaQeL3z45L-g@mail.gmail.com> <slrnj5ddgp.4ck.vadim_nuclight@kernblitz.nuclight.avtf.net> <CAMBSHm8uX45k0M4on=5Cpw_CKoddA=4oJSNXpH7dGPt=Vy2HOw@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1108261000040.48200@fledge.watson.org> <slrnj5lc58.jd1.vadim_nuclight@kernblitz.nuclight.avtf.net> <4e5ba9c3.bzHIw1KEy8R2QcK7%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <3420B331-C697-468A-80BA-B31C33804710@freebsd.org> <4e5c5b5f.moT7dLemOuteQJ5T%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <4E5C364D.7070904@freebsd.org>
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On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 06:01:01PM -0700 I heard the voice of Julian Elischer, and lo! it spake thus: > > With a distributed system one spends all sorts of time making sure > that what YOU think is in release X is what the guy you are helping > debug thinks is in it.. > > Gone is the ability to say "That came in with rev 23456 so if you > are later than that you have it." Just because it's true of System X, which is in the class of "distributed systems", doesn't mean it's inherent in the class... -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream.
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