Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like

[tomas@tuxteam.de]

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On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 03:09:19AM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote:

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> Ok, but those are details.  The crucial point is that saving a file,
> or git commit, alters your own data only; it does not affect what
> other users will get from the published repository.

Yes and no. That depends on wether "your" repository is the one other
users refer to (a perfectly valid setup under Arch and git -- and I
guess under other distributed VCSes as well). Not that this would be a
good idea for a "big" and "loosely-knit" project, though.

So it's rather that the "commit" of central VCSese is split up into two
operations (commit: working dir --> repo; push: repo --> repo) in
distributed VCSes. On a central VCS, with just one repo, this
differentiation doesn't make kuch sense.

The analogy suggested by re-using commit is quite valid, and afaik all
distributed VCSes went this path (so it seems to be rather compelling).

Regards
- -- tomás
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