From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Dec 9 16:17:09 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id QAA17812 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 9 Dec 1996 16:17:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from xmission.xmission.com (softweyr@xmission.xmission.com [198.60.22.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id QAA17794 for ; Mon, 9 Dec 1996 16:16:58 -0800 (PST) Received: (from softweyr@localhost) by xmission.xmission.com (8.8.4/8.7.5) id RAA15622; Mon, 9 Dec 1996 17:13:13 -0700 (MST) From: Softweyr LLC Message-Id: <199612100013.RAA15622@xmission.xmission.com> Subject: Re: siguing into current from a random version To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 17:13:12 -0700 (MST) Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199612092228.PAA01956@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Dec 9, 96 03:28:50 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Terry Lambert stated: > The point of locks is *not* to keep developers from stepping on each > other. The point *is* to eliminate all of the convenient excuses > everyone habitually use to claim "not my fault" when the tree breaks. > > [...] > > I still claim that this is a worthwhile thing to do. Perforce has a source code control system that purports to be equivalent to CVS, but with atomic locking. Last I checked, they were very proud of the fact that their system runs on FreeBSD, and are giving away 2- user systems for FreeBSD. They would probably be very willing to donate a server and clients for the FreeBSD core team, and anyone else can get their own system, including clients, for read-only access. http://www.perforce.com (Formerly known as P3. Might be worth looking into.) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com