Wrenching at least one branch of this conversation back to CVSNT, or at least
the CVS way of thinking...
> From: Tony Hoyle
> Andreas Krey wrote:
> > I happen to travel by rail, and while there is GPRS etc., it is
> > a bit flaky when you actually move, and it's not exactly fast.
> > You definitely don't want to do lots of 'cvs diff's there.
>
> Depends on how you work - I rarely do cvs diffs for example,
> unless I'm
> checking a commit, and if I'm doing that it's in the office.
I've noted some reasonably major resistance from the core team to anyone
needing replicated CVSNT repos - right down to the 2.5.04 release message, and
reiterated by Arthur on this list a couple of days ago. It's provided (and
thanks for implementing it), but with really quite bad grace.
But... it depends on how you work, as you say. Tools exist to support me in
doing my job, and "what have I changed?" is an operation I wish to perform more
and more frequently as I get older and more forgetful. At the same time, I
travel more, and that "fast, always-on" connection is neither fast nor
always-on. For this reason, I appreciate having a local copy against which I
can diff, even when I'm on a train on a particularly rural part of the West
Coast main line*.
This may be a reason for keeping a truly local copy of the source rather than
merely replicating servers, but I do think the view of "nobody needs more than
one server" is wrong. The mobile/disconnected user is increasingly common,
even when they'd prefer to be mobile/connected or even static/connected.
- Peter
* For non-UK residents, this railway line is notorious for poor reception on
mobile phones, and hence mobile Internet.
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