Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 18:25:50 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: mellon@pobox.com (Anatoly Vorobey) Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Salon article on BSD Message-ID: <200005171825.LAA07572@usr05.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <20000516084731.A49446@happy.checkpoint.com> from "Anatoly Vorobey" at May 16, 2000 08:47:31 AM
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> Here's Linus quoted inside on why he doesn't do source control: > > "The purely technical side of keeping track of the sources can be > handled by source control packages," says Torvalds, "but at least, in > my opinion, they actually tend to favor the approach of 'Let's put > this in now; if it turns out to be a mistake, we can always revert it > because we have source control.' And of course, nobody ever actually > does clean up anything. Or hardly ever. So I think the real problem in > computer science is to have quality control before it even hits the > distribution, and so far there isn't any other package than the human > brain that can do that job." > > This is so mind-boggingly... misguided?... I just don't know what to > say to this. Well, how about: 1) Source control promotes deleting things that the people in charge of the source control aren't using any more because "we can always recover it from the attic". 2) Source control tends to polarize all developement along a single line of research, unless that source control is extremely capable -- and CVS is not sufficiently capable of resolving this problem, any more than the old patchkit code was. I think he's just rationalizing a (valid) gut feel for the currently freely avaible tools. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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