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Re: distributed version control


From: David Bateman
Subject: Re: distributed version control
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:45:56 +0100
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Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> * David Bateman <address@hidden> [2008-01-28 16:22]:
>
>   
>> Don't pull and clone make a copy of the repository? What about
>> committing back to the master repository over https? I really have no
>> idea of the capabilities of the versioning tools proposed, and as SVN
>> was off the cards I haven't entered into this discussion till now.
>>     
>
> Well, git and hg works around a different model than that of cvs and svn.
> There is no "master repository" and "committing to a master repository"
> makes little sense with these tools.  Under this paradigm, every developer
> will have a private repository and will be able to pull or clone from JWE's
> repository (you could call JWE's repo the "master repo" but, in principle,
> it will be one repository like the others, besides the fact that John will
> use it for making the releases).
>
> Git has a git-push command that allows using it in a cvs- or svn-like
> manner, but I think we would better asking JWE to pull the changes from our
> repositories instead of falling back to the old version-control paradigm.
>  
>   
Ok, I'm a dinosaur and don't understand the new paradigm ;-)

D.

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