From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stefan Monnier" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [Fwd: [arch-users] Re: Gud lord!] Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 10:11:40 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <200306111411.h5BEBepj004629@rum.cs.yale.edu> References: <20030610165211.911A.JMBARRANQUERO@laley.wke.es> <200306101503.h5AF3EH9032505@rum.cs.yale.edu> <20030611085212.51D3.JMBARRANQUERO@laley.wke.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1055340722 5283 80.91.224.249 (11 Jun 2003 14:12:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 14:12:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 11 16:12:00 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19Q6KT-0001Me-00 for ; Wed, 11 Jun 2003 16:11:57 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19Q6fU-0002Bs-00 for ; Wed, 11 Jun 2003 16:33:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19Q6LF-0004qV-53 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 11 Jun 2003 10:12:45 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19Q6L2-0004gW-TW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Jun 2003 10:12:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19Q6KN-00044f-VI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Jun 2003 10:11:52 -0400 Original-Received: from rum.cs.yale.edu ([128.36.229.169]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19Q6KM-00040w-HJ; Wed, 11 Jun 2003 10:11:50 -0400 Original-Received: from rum.cs.yale.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rum.cs.yale.edu (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h5BEBe0i004631; Wed, 11 Jun 2003 10:11:40 -0400 Original-Received: (from monnier@localhost) by rum.cs.yale.edu (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id h5BEBepj004629; Wed, 11 Jun 2003 10:11:40 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.4 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 Original-To: Juanma Barranquero Original-cc: Miles Bader Original-cc: Jonathan Walther Original-cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:15036 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:15036 > I've got the feeling that CVSROOT/* and friends are "basically obvious" > only to people with some sort of Unix background. But as you know, CVS I don't think so. I think they're only non-obvious to people for whom *any* repository structure would be non-obvious. After all, they're just plain text and have very few interdependencies. You copy the repository with rsync just fine (it might end up being in a somewhat inconsistent state where some commits are missing, but it will work just fine), whereas with something Subversion there's a particular protocol to follow. Of course, it has its own advantages. > Yeah, I agree with that. Still, some of them insist in things like > decentralization, etc. I've got nothing against a centralized repository, > on the contrary :) Arch does not impose any decentralization whatsoever. All it does is that it allows decentralization if you want it, and since it's something that other systems can't do (and it's really neat when you need it), of course they talk a lot about it. But it's like CVS going on and on about remote repositories: that doesn't mean "I'll use RCS because I want my repository to be local". Stefan