Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: may I pick your brains?

[Dustin Sallings]

On Feb 23, 2004, at 7:25, C. R. Oldham wrote:

> Now, being told that my programmers can easily branch and create 
> offline
> copies of archives, littering their file storage area with lots of
> little archives kind of scares me.  To me, that means some pretty 
> strict
> policies and procedures that cannot be enforced via technical means 
> need
> to be put in place.

	We have the opposite problem where I work.  Our source trees are very 
large, and our revision control system is littered with branches where 
someone wanted to make a small change to the system, or unofficial 
experiments or something.  Anything that has the possibility of getting 
run in production must come from a branch our QA has access to, so the 
changes would need to be merged into an official location.  Dealing 
with such branches outside of the official tree is just fine here, and 
would definitely be preferable.

	It's all in how you paint the picture, I think.  My manager really 
loves the idea that I can branch the tree on my laptop on a road trip 
if I need to, and merge my changes back in, changelogs and all, when I 
get back.  Of course, the latter part hasn't happened just yet because 
``merge my changes back in'' requires an arch to p4 gateway which I 
haven't written yet (although I've got the other direction working 
wonderfully).

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Dustin Sallings