Re: [Monotone-devel] Too many heads? (was Re: newbie question - SHA1 vs serials)

[K. Richard Pixley]

Bruce Stephens wrote:

> > Monotone has neither exclusive write-locks nor rigid access control.
> > I'm concerned about the case where so many developers are
> > committing, that the number of heads consistently rises.  Even if
> > developers are required to merge first, the number of heads
> > continues to rise.
> >    
> Is that likely to happen?
I think it's inevitable.  It may not be common, but it will be inevitable.

Eventually, the number of developers in some project will be so high 
and/or the churn rate will reach a point where there are always 
outstanding heads to be merged, even if the age of any particular head 
is still small.

I suspect that most real repositories will routinely have multiple heads 
that people have either intentionally abandoned or simply left because 
there was no compelling reason to merge or there were compelling reasons 
to avoid merging.

--rich