Comments on: Opening up to distributed version control http://www.sauria.com/blog/2007/08/27/opening-up-to-distributed-version-control/ Open Source, Modern Programming Languages, OS X, Photography, and ... Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:20:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Stephan Schmidt http://www.sauria.com/blog/2007/08/27/opening-up-to-distributed-version-control/#comment-6399 Stephan Schmidt Tue, 28 Aug 2007 07:28:22 +0000 http://www.sauria.com/blog/2007/08/27/opening-up-to-distributed-version-control/#comment-6399 My only concern about distributed version control is the lack of tools. There is excellent SVN integration in IntelliJ IDEA and there is an excellent free SVN library (SVNKit) to interface to SVN with Java. Hopefully SVN will close some gaps in merging when adding better merge algorithms and merge tracking this year. With equally good IDE integration and a native Java library to git and others, probably I would jump ship. For most projects though, version control is a minor problem (and SVK can help to dezentralize SVN). And I'm not sure , how much distributed version control is modelled after the Linux development model and how other open source projects resemble that model. Coming from some very big enterprise applications with big code bases and branches, I might see some benefit in distributed development. Peace -stephan -- Stephan Schmidt :: stephan@reposita.org Reposita Open Source - Monitor your software development http://www.reposita.org Blog at http://stephan.reposita.org - No signal. No noise. My only concern about distributed version control is the lack of tools. There is excellent SVN integration in IntelliJ IDEA and there is an excellent free SVN library (SVNKit) to interface to SVN with Java.

Hopefully SVN will close some gaps in merging when adding better merge algorithms and merge tracking this year.

With equally good IDE integration and a native Java library to git and others, probably I would jump ship. For most projects though, version control is a minor problem (and SVK can help to dezentralize SVN). And I’m not sure , how much distributed version control is modelled after the Linux development model and how other open source projects resemble that model.

Coming from some very big enterprise applications with big code bases and branches, I might see some benefit in distributed development.

Peace
-stephan

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Blog at http://stephan.reposita.org - No signal. No noise.

]]> By: bignose http://www.sauria.com/blog/2007/08/27/opening-up-to-distributed-version-control/#comment-6396 bignose Tue, 28 Aug 2007 02:00:44 +0000 http://www.sauria.com/blog/2007/08/27/opening-up-to-distributed-version-control/#comment-6396 > How does each person know what to integrate with before checking their own code - do they have a designated release branch? Yes. > How does each person know what to integrate with before checking their own code - do they have a designated release branch?

Yes.

]]> By: rick http://www.sauria.com/blog/2007/08/27/opening-up-to-distributed-version-control/#comment-6394 rick Mon, 27 Aug 2007 21:54:56 +0000 http://www.sauria.com/blog/2007/08/27/opening-up-to-distributed-version-control/#comment-6394 I don't quite get how decentralized version control is going to make any project easier to manage and release. Philosophical reasons keeping an open unwalled garden of innovation aside, I don't get the logistics. How does one manage to put a release together if everyone just pulls code out to their own branches? How does each person know what to integrate with before checking their own code - do they have a designated release branch? (It may not help that I use P4 in my day-to-day work, and only sometimes use SVN for personal projects - my thinking may be skewed due to that.) I don’t quite get how decentralized version control is going to make any project easier to manage and release. Philosophical reasons keeping an open unwalled garden of innovation aside, I don’t get the logistics. How does one manage to put a release together if everyone just pulls code out to their own branches? How does each person know what to integrate with before checking their own code - do they have a designated release branch? (It may not help that I use P4 in my day-to-day work, and only sometimes use SVN for personal projects - my thinking may be skewed due to that.)

]]> By: Jay P http://www.sauria.com/blog/2007/08/27/opening-up-to-distributed-version-control/#comment-6391 Jay P Mon, 27 Aug 2007 19:21:24 +0000 http://www.sauria.com/blog/2007/08/27/opening-up-to-distributed-version-control/#comment-6391 The Linus talk was a big turning point for me. I had tried distributed systems before (darcs) before, but never really saw much of an advantage. Linus focusing so much of his time on the importance of branching, and the ease of merging, is what did it for me. The Linus talk was a big turning point for me. I had tried distributed systems before (darcs) before, but never really saw much of an advantage.

Linus focusing so much of his time on the importance of branching, and the ease of merging, is what did it for me.

]]> By: Michael Lucas-Smith http://www.sauria.com/blog/2007/08/27/opening-up-to-distributed-version-control/#comment-6390 Michael Lucas-Smith Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:20:47 +0000 http://www.sauria.com/blog/2007/08/27/opening-up-to-distributed-version-control/#comment-6390 Our podcast, Industry Misinterpretations, just finished a 3 parter on version control where I heavily pushed the idea of distributed version control. Our podcast, Industry Misinterpretations, just finished a 3 parter on version control where I heavily pushed the idea of distributed version control.

]]> By: James Ward http://www.sauria.com/blog/2007/08/27/opening-up-to-distributed-version-control/#comment-6389 James Ward Mon, 27 Aug 2007 16:21:15 +0000 http://www.sauria.com/blog/2007/08/27/opening-up-to-distributed-version-control/#comment-6389 Thanks Ted. Totally agree with you on this. We just recently had <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/flex-open-source/browse_thread/thread/68e2f4161c6ba5b6/8c7aa3014fc8958e" rel="nofollow">a conversation about this</a> on the Flex Open Source Google Group. But it seems that since I was the only one advocating distributed VC, we will probably go with SVN. :( -James Thanks Ted. Totally agree with you on this. We just recently had a conversation about this on the Flex Open Source Google Group. But it seems that since I was the only one advocating distributed VC, we will probably go with SVN. :(

-James

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