Why DVCS, was Re: TFS Feedaback? Anyone moved away from it?

2010-11-03 Thread silky
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 6:26 AM, Joseph Cooney wrote: > I've used TFS on and off since about 2006 (mostly because I was working at > MS, as they are fond of TFS), but haven't used TFS 2010. It's biggest > strength IMO is integration - requirements, work items, bugs, builds, source > code and projec

Re: Why DVCS, was Re: TFS Feedaback? Anyone moved away from it?

2010-11-03 Thread Joseph Cooney
argumentative? silky? GTFO! Most of my experience with DVCS has been with mercurial (hg) which I've used for about the last 2 years for my personal stuff. Before that I used SVN. I think the difference (from my point of view) is that hg works well in a super-set of configurations to TFS/SVN. If you

Re: Why DVCS, was Re: TFS Feedaback? Anyone moved away from it?

2010-11-03 Thread silky
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Joseph Cooney wrote: > argumentative? silky? GTFO! :) > Most of my experience with DVCS has been with > mercurial (hg) which I've used for about the last 2 years for my personal > stuff. Before that I used SVN. I think the difference (from my point of > view) is

RE: Why DVCS, was Re: TFS Feedaback? Anyone moved away from it?

2010-11-03 Thread Paul Stovell
tem really fails once a patch gets a little old. Paul -Original Message- From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of silky Sent: Thursday, 4 November 2010 8:29 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Why DVCS, was Re: TFS Feedaback? Anyone moved away f

Re: Why DVCS, was Re: TFS Feedaback? Anyone moved away from it?

2010-11-03 Thread silky
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 5:40 PM, Paul Stovell wrote: > Hi Silky, > > I think in some ways you have to experience it - the proof is in the > tasting. But here are some things I like about it that work even for small, > local teams. > > 1.   How many times did you make a small change, then delete

RE: Why DVCS, was Re: TFS Feedaback? Anyone moved away from it?

2010-11-04 Thread Paul Stovell
t-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of silky Sent: Thursday, 4 November 2010 4:51 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Why DVCS, was Re: TFS Feedaback? Anyone moved away from it? On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 5:40 PM, Paul Stovell wrote: > Hi Silky, > > I think in some ways you have to experience i

Re: Why DVCS, was Re: TFS Feedaback? Anyone moved away from it?

2010-11-04 Thread silky
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Paul Stovell wrote: > > > Broken how? [...] > In Mercurial it works different. You'd pull the 19 changes made to the trunk > to your local repository - they'd be replayed, one-by-one, against your > files. You'll still do the merges (leaving alone that Mercurial

Re: Why DVCS, was Re: TFS Feedaback? Anyone moved away from it?

2010-11-04 Thread David Burstin
Just adding my 2c: I used to use Subversion and loved it - it did everything I wanted it to do. One day I had some time on my hands and decided to try Mercurial, just to see what it was like. I have never used Subversion since. 90% of my stuff is single developer and local (when I'm on contract I

RE: Why DVCS, was Re: TFS Feedaback? Anyone moved away from it?

2010-11-04 Thread Paul Glavich
: Why DVCS, was Re: TFS Feedaback? Anyone moved away from it? >> Broken how? Let's say you decide to implement a new feature in a TFS branch. You branch the trunk to FeatureX. Over the course of a week, you make 13 check-ins to that branch. During this time, the rest of your team made

Re: Why DVCS, was Re: TFS Feedaback? Anyone moved away from it?

2010-11-04 Thread mike smith
On 4 November 2010 12:43, silky wrote: > On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Joseph Cooney > wrote: >> argumentative? silky? GTFO! > > :) > > >> Most of my experience with DVCS has been with >> mercurial (hg) which I've used for about the last 2 years for my personal >> stuff. Before that I used SV

Re: Why DVCS, was Re: TFS Feedaback? Anyone moved away from it?

2010-11-04 Thread silky
>> Yeah, this is what I thought. And I can't help but feel this is >> totally overrated. I mean, I don't know a single person who would say >> using SVN is slow. > > It is glacially slow when your repository is not local.  There, a > single person has said it.  Look at minute/s to do something like

Re: Why DVCS, was Re: TFS Feedaback? Anyone moved away from it?

2010-11-04 Thread David Connors
On 5 November 2010 08:37, mike smith wrote: > > Yeah, this is what I thought. And I can't help but feel this is > > totally overrated. I mean, I don't know a single person who would say > > using SVN is slow. > > It is glacially slow when your repository is not local. There, a > single person ha

RE: Why DVCS, was Re: TFS Feedaback? Anyone moved away from it?

2010-11-04 Thread David Russell
e elegant model. Paul -Original Message- From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of silky Sent: Thursday, 4 November 2010 4:51 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Why DVCS, was Re: TFS Feedaback? Anyone moved away from it? On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 5:40

Re: Why DVCS, was Re: TFS Feedaback? Anyone moved away from it?

2010-11-04 Thread Grant Molloy
.msdn.com/b/mitrik/archive/2009/05/28/changing-to-slot-mode-in-tfs-2010-version-control.aspx > > > -Original Message- > From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] > On Behalf Of Paul Stovell > Sent: Thursday, 4 November 2010 6:11 PM > To: ozDotNet &

Re: Why DVCS, was Re: TFS Feedaback? Anyone moved away from it?

2010-11-04 Thread silky
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Grant Molloy wrote: > Putting the flavour of your DVCS aside for the moment... > > How "secure" do you feel having all your code, IP, etc, sitting on somebody > elses servers ? > > If they shut up shop tomorrow, do you keep a local copy of everything too ?? > What

Re: Why DVCS, was Re: TFS Feedaback? Anyone moved away from it?

2010-11-04 Thread Grant Molloy
Hi Silky, Wasn't directed directly at you, but at anyone who wants to provide an answer... Wow... $90 a month IS expensive.. but tax deductible !! On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 9:59 AM, silky wrote: > On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Grant Molloy wrote: > > Putting the flavour of your DVCS aside for

Re: Why DVCS, was Re: TFS Feedaback? Anyone moved away from it?

2010-11-04 Thread mike smith
On 5 November 2010 09:55, David Connors wrote: > On 5 November 2010 08:37, mike smith wrote: >> >> > Yeah, this is what I thought. And I can't help but feel this is >> > totally overrated. I mean, I don't know a single person who would say >> > using SVN is slow. >> >> It is glacially slow when y

Re: Why DVCS, was Re: TFS Feedaback? Anyone moved away from it?

2010-11-04 Thread mike smith
On 5 November 2010 10:59, silky wrote: > On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Grant Molloy wrote: >> Putting the flavour of your DVCS aside for the moment... >> >> How "secure" do you feel having all your code, IP, etc, sitting on somebody >> elses servers ? >> >> If they shut up shop tomorrow, do yo

Re: Why DVCS, was Re: TFS Feedaback? Anyone moved away from it?

2010-11-04 Thread silky
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 12:42 PM, mike smith wrote: > On 5 November 2010 10:59, silky wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Grant Molloy wrote: >>> Putting the flavour of your DVCS aside for the moment... >>> >>> How "secure" do you feel having all your code, IP, etc, sitting on somebody >>>

Re: Why DVCS, was Re: TFS Feedaback? Anyone moved away from it?

2010-11-05 Thread Mark Ryall
I'm using svn again now after using git and hg for a few years (tfs was in there too - i don't want to talk about that). I always liked svn and found it adequate but don't anymore. There's nothing a DVCS provides that you can't live without - just as 64Kb of RAM was once perfectly adequate. The

RE: Why DVCS, was Re: TFS Feedaback? Anyone moved away from it?

2010-11-05 Thread David Kean
, November 05, 2010 11:19 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Why DVCS, was Re: TFS Feedaback? Anyone moved away from it? I'm using svn again now after using git and hg for a few years (tfs was in there too - i don't want to talk about that). I always liked svn and found it adequate but don

Re: Why DVCS, was Re: TFS Feedaback? Anyone moved away from it?

2010-11-05 Thread Joseph Cooney
– > having everyone pull that down and all the history along with it, would not > be fun. > > > > From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On > Behalf Of Mark Ryall > Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 11:19 AM > To: ozDotNet > Su

RE: Why DVCS, was Re: TFS Feedaback? Anyone moved away from it?

2010-11-06 Thread David Kean
Subject: Re: Why DVCS, was Re: TFS Feedaback? Anyone moved away from it? There is a mercurial vide from 2006 where they say some folks have gb-sized source trees. Mono use Git - which would be roughly the same size as a devdiv branch (an assumption based on the fact that they deliver equivalent

Re: Why DVCS, was Re: TFS Feedaback? Anyone moved away from it?

2010-11-06 Thread Joseph Cooney
Behalf Of Joseph Cooney > Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 8:30 PM > To: ozDotNet > Cc: ozDotNet > Subject: Re: Why DVCS, was Re: TFS Feedaback? Anyone moved away from it? > > > > There is a mercurial vide from 2006 where they say some folks have gb-sized > sourc

Re: Why DVCS, was Re: TFS Feedaback? Anyone moved away from it?

2010-11-06 Thread silky
On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Joseph Cooney wrote: > Yeah, tfs integration is very good. There is a dvcs that has integrated bug, > work item tracking and wiki (called fossil) from the makers of sqlite. I > haven't used it, but it will be interesting to see how long tfs retains this > advantage

RE: Why DVCS, was Re: TFS Feedaback? Anyone moved away from it?

2010-11-06 Thread Paul Stovell
ember 2010 4:32 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: RE: Why DVCS, was Re: TFS Feedaback? Anyone moved away from it? How big are the databases that you are using? I'd imagine that there would be huge savings in using a DVCS for small self-contained repositories, however, there would be a given size where