I'm sorry, I don't understand how your answer below relates to *avoiding* branches. (It does nicely answer my question of what branch support you would like in your SCM tool; thanks ;)
Can you clarify at all what sort of support an SCM could give you to let you have > 128 concurrent developers on one branch all churning a given file? thanks, -emile On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 12:30, K. Richard Pixley wrote: > Emile Snyder wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 10:20, K. Richard Pixley wrote: > > > > > My point is that currently available tools offer differing levels of > > > support before solving the problem manually is required. 128 concurrent > > > developers is only rare because existing tools have maxed out in this > > > range forcing people to think in terms of solving the problem manually, > > > (ie, partitioning), much sooner. Partitioning has a high overhead so > > > we'd really prefer to avoid it for as long as possible although > > > partitioning is better than failing to solve the problem. > > > > > Could you say a little more about how existing tools support this > > massively concurrent mode better? To be concrete, in a previous message > > you referenced a case where you have ReallyImportantHeader.h that > > everything depends on and that is churning alot. I'm probably just > > lacking in imagination, but if you want all your developers to get code > > back on mainline quickly (ie. want to avoid partitioning to slightly > > longer lived branches) how do you get away from spending lots of time > > merging? Or do you just want the tool to force you to merge more often? > > > I want to be able to determine how many branches exist, who created > them, who maintains them, what the common usages are, who's using > which, and typical code churn in each. I want to be able to determine > code pedigrees at a glance, merge status at a glance, I want to be > able to create a sandbox using bits from different branches and I want > to be able to grep the heads of all branches for particular strings. > > How's that for a start? +---------------------------------------------------------------------- Q. what do you call an elephant with a machine gun? A. sir. +----------------------------------------------------------------------
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