Re: [Boost-users] What's happened to Ryppl?

30 Jan 2011

      AMDG

On 1/29/2011 11:36 PM, Dean Michael Berris wrote:
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On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 6:22 AM, Steven Watanabe  wrote:
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On 1/29/2011 1:50 PM, Dave Abrahams wrote:
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On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 3:33 PM, Steven Watanabe
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And having multiple maintainers maintaining a single "canonical" git
repo is the sweetest thing ever. Merging changes from many different
sources into a single "master" is actually *fun* as opposed to painful
with a centralized VCS.
What does this have to do with whether the
repository is centralized or distributed?
The fact that you can quickly try doing it several different ways
without affecting the "official repo" is a big plus.
I don't understand.  Quickly try doing what?
The merge.
That's what I thought, but it didn't make sense
to me.

a) Merges in svn are always done locally first.
    It doesn't change the repository until you
    commit.
b) Why would I want to try it several different ways?
    I always know exactly what I want to merge before
    I start.
c) Even if I were merging by trial and error, I
    still don't understand what makes a distributed
    system so much better.  It doesn't seem like it
    should matter.

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe