Re: [Monotone-devel] somewhat incoherent debate over CVS limitations, with a feature request buried inside

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 11:31:32PM -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> 
> Appended to this message is a rather long argument about whether or
> not expect should be removed from the sources.redhat.com 'src' CVS
> repository.  But what it's really about is a limitation in CVS - if
> you have one big repository with everything in it, you can only
> subdivide it with 'modules', which don't really work.  Some of the
> problems are evident in the argument, others are not so obvious (for
> instance, modules can only be defined globally, individual repo users
> can't make up their own.)
> 
> I'm not feeling coherent enough to design out how I think this stuff
> *ought* to work, but I'm hoping y'all have clever ideas.

Is anyone aware of any document describing what modules are and why
anyone cares?  What they do and what the use case(s) they're trying to
solve are?  I've never understood this.

Monotone doesn't have any sort of module analogue at all right now.
You put different software in different branches, that's all.

-- Nathaniel

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