Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 21:05:19 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> Cc: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: proposal: simple cvs mod to handle shared checked-out source trees Message-ID: <199812030505.VAA21338@apollo.backplane.com> References: <199812022200.OAA19221@apollo.backplane.com> <199812022209.PAA08774@mt.sri.com> <199812022258.OAA19488@apollo.backplane.com> <199812022303.QAA09143@mt.sri.com> <19981203021233.A18661@follo.net>
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:Commonly used everywhere I've worked. And this is not because I
:initate it; I specifically try to get people to not do this unless it
:is clearly the most efficient way for them to work, and I can not
:remember ever having made the suggestion.
:...
:
:Eivind.
At NextBus the source tree is checked out on each workstation and
people (usually) login as themselves on whatever workstation they
are sitting at, cvs update -d, and then work on it. Ugh.
Even at BEST the traditional local source tree under CVS is checked
out in only one place on one machine, but unlike the active network
config and dns files these sources are only worked on by 3 people. It
just turns out to be easier to have only one copy checked out and have
it happen to be the same copy that we use to generate the system.
The network and DNS management works differently... the background
system announces when it is about to do a sync and any staff member
(out of 20+ or so people) who is actively messing with the working set
cleans up whatever he is doing and then waits for the system to sync
before resuming.
I can definitely see the utility even when working on a traditional
source project, where you might have a small sub-group of people working
on a specific feature using a common working dataset. Even though the
dataset is separate from other things other people are working on,
you can still have the situation where several people clump together
on a common dataset. A small group of two or three people can often
work on a common (traditional source) working tree without stepping
on each others toes.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon Engineering, HiWay Technologies, Inc. & BEST Internet
Communications & God knows what else.
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