On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 07:21:24 -0500, s...@pobox.com wrote: > > Stephen> This won't be pleasant if people are sprinting and lots of > Stephen> commits are coming, because you're likely to repeatedly lose > Stephen> the push race. But in those conditions, nothing is guaranteed > Stephen> to work in decentralized fashion (that's one reason why the > Stephen> Linux kernel uses Linus and lieutenants as a serialization > Stephen> mechanism). > > So DVCS scales up to a point, then it breaks and you need to revert to some > sort of serialization scheme?
Note that svnmerge broke at exactly the same scale point, for exactly the same reason: every svnmerge touched root properties, thereby effectively serializing access to the tree. There were lots of curses from people trying to svnmerge at the sprints in previous years. -- R. David Murray http://www.bitdance.com _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
