On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 04:55 -0400, Stefan Seefeld wrote:
And, some comment on Doug's point about process vs. tools: I thing I find rather disturbing is that, apparently, in quite a number of times checkins mix different (and unrelated !) features, making it impossible to track regressions back to changesets.
Examples? I haven't seen this as a real problem. The more immediate problem I've seen is that nearly any new feature or bug-fix in Boost is going to span 3 directories (boost/libname, lib/libname/test, lib/libname/doc), and CVS doesn't keep those things in a changeset. Subversion and Trac fixed that problem. Boost developers are smart; they don't need a process to tell them to keep change-sets to a single feature, they need an SCM and a regression test system that keeps those change-sets together. We now have the first. - Doug