Requirements gathering for new package source control
Toshio Kuratomi
a.badger at gmail.com
Tue Jun 10 14:18:29 UTC 2008
Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:06:41 +0200
> Karel Zak <kzak at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 08:23:19AM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
>>> On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 02:36:27 +0200
>>> Karel Zak <kzak at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 02:19:38PM -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
>>>>> Thank you all for your thoughtful consideration.
>>>> - be able to easily rebase/refresh a patch
>>> That's pretty outside the scope of any SCM we deploy. Use tools like
>>> quilt.
>> [...]
>>
>>> Generate patches from what? We don't store exploded tarballs. We
>>> store tarballs and patches.
>> Right... so, why we need any SCM (=source code managment)? Shouldn't
>> be better for our work to use quilt+rsync?
>
> No... have you ever tried to deal with multiple people working on the
> same package without some kind of merge/conflict detection capability
> built into the tool used to "commit"?
>
It could be argued that storing patches in an SCM has conflict detection
but not merge capability.
-Toshio
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