On Fri, August 17, 2007 12:21 pm, Stewart Stremler wrote: > begin quoting Carl Lowenstein as of Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 11:41:29AM > -0700: >> On 8/17/07, Lan Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> > On Fri, August 17, 2007 8:52 am, Carl Lowenstein wrote: >> > > On 8/17/07, Lan Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> Merging can be minimised, suck-wise, by having developers >> understand the >> > >> tofu rule, keep branches short, only branch when necessary, etc. >> > > >> > > What, pray tell, is the tofu rule? >> > >> > http://www.perforce.com/perforce/conferences/eu/2006/presentations/laura_wingerd/ConvergenceVsDivergence.html >> > >> >> Isn't that a rather esoteric piece of jargon to toss out without any >> supporting context? > > Um. I knew what he was talking about. But I've only ever seen it when > the folks have been exposed to perforce. > > -
Yeah, it's a p4 thing. One of the real issues in SCM is that there is no standard nomencalture. Just tool-specific jargon. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
