Re: SCM, Content-Management and cherry-picking in big project

2010-03-02 Thread pacco
Am 01.03.2010 20:35, schrieb Pacco: > Hi David, > > I'm very thankful about your brief response and the many ideas and Sorry, should of course be 'elaborated', not 'brief'.

Re: SCM, Content-Management and cherry-picking in big project

2010-03-01 Thread Pacco
Hi Ben, thank you for your response. After one additional day of thinking about this issue I am near to a concluĊ›ion that I'm on the wrong way fixing problems of the work-flow process by abusing the VCS. The problem is that I'm heavily tighten by political issues and decissions that makes it

Re: SCM, Content-Management and cherry-picking in big project

2010-03-01 Thread Pacco
Hi David, I'm very thankful about your brief response and the many ideas and thoughts you provided. In many cases you mentioned about choosing better ways I absolutely agree with you. But unfortunately it is not up to me to decide things like selecting the VCS or the underlying tools. There a

Re: SCM, Content-Management and cherry-picking in big project

2010-03-01 Thread David Weintraub
Consider the popularity of Subversion, I'd definitely count it as one of the big boys. Unlike most other packages, Subversion versions the changes to the repository rather than individual files. This can seem confusing at first. You have a file that's been changed twice, but somehow you can refer t

Re: SCM, Content-Management and cherry-picking in big project

2010-03-01 Thread B Smith-Mannschott
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 21:33, Pacco wrote: > Hi, > > I'm responsible for the content of a single package within a bigger software > (several million lines of code). I'm experienced with ClearCase, Dimensions, > CVS, git, mercurial, etc. > Now, management decision was made to use Subversion over o