Re: Can't update package index
"SL Baur" <steve(a)xemacs.org> writes:
On 8/17/07, Steve Youngs <steve(a)sxemacs.org> wrote:
> Personally, I think that would be a bad idea. gwyn is nowhere near
> what it used to be in your day, Steve. Full discs, slow flakey
> connections (at least to me), and no admins anywhere to be found.
I've had as many problems getting stuff ftp'ed from there as I've
had getting back up to date from cvs.xemacs.org, but I assumed it
was a local firewalling issue.
I'm no big fan of CVS and only put our code under it because of
expediency and multi-user commit features. Does git handle
multi-user commit well?
Pretty much so. One problem with git is that you can make a royal
mess with history manipulation, branching, and its ilk. The reflogs
of git make it possible to straighten out pretty much everything
again, but the possibilities are mostly in your own, personal
repository. To be fair, the possibilities for transferring a
messed-up configuration upstream with git balking are not all too
large either. But it still helps if there is a central person or team
feeling responsible for a central archive.
(I look at the zillion different developer trees all aimed at the
single-point-of- failure Linus tree and say "Hell no!")
Uh, CVS and Subversion have single-point-of-failure repositories. git
hasn't. If Linus royally messes up his repository, there are
thousands of other repositories he could clone from. And any messup
can be easily rewinded anywhere. The elevated status of Linus'
repository is an organizational one, not a technical.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
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