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Re: refactoring when using CVS


From: Noel Yap
Subject: Re: refactoring when using CVS
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 08:28:16 -0800 (PST)

--- "Greg A. Woods" <address@hidden> wrote:
> Where it becomes bad is when it adversely impacts
> other members of a
> multi-person project.  CVS provides ways to isolate
> such practices
> though so that they don't adversely impact the
> project (per developer
> branches).

Since bare-bones CVS pretty much forces you to tag (ie
branch) all files in the module, either it's a slug
when it comes to large code bases, or you're forced to
create a wrapper to manage branches for only parts of
the module.

Personally, I would opt for task branches over
developer branches since then, there'd be a very good
mapping between the branch and a change set and
multiple developers could work on the same branch.

Still, there's the problem of possible multiple
refactorings having to be merged.

> How do you know?  An operating system is an awfully
> big project.  Many
> parts of it can be worked on independently by small
> teams, and if those
> teams are broken up into pairs who do XP within the
> micro-project and
> then their "final" result is committed to the main
> repository then how
> is it that they are not doing XP?  :-)

And how likely do you think a geographically disperse
team is doing paired programming.  My guess is if the
team is large enough, there's bound to be a pair out
there doing this, but as a whole, I wouldn't say the
entire team is doing it.  And if the entire team isn't
doing it, and they're using CVS, then it's irrelevant
to this discussion.

> What this proves is that XP need not have any direct
> interaction with
> the shared CVS repository used by a larger
> encompassing project.

So let's say that there is a pair out there doing XP. 
How easy do you think it is to reintegrate their
refactoring changes in light of the fact that other
development has been going on?

> I'm hoping your misplaced sarcasm comes from the
> fact that you don't
> seem to have a clue about the current state of
> ongoing development of
> the *BSD projects......

I think you seem to think most real-world projects
reflect the same needs as that of *BSD.  This leads me
to the question, when was the last time you've worked
in a corporate environment and how long did it last? 
I don't mean this question to be insulting, it's just
that you have a completely different mind-set from
many other people on this list and I would like to
understand it better.

Noel

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