From: "Roman V. Shaposhnik" <rvs@sun.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Sources Gone?
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 08:45:59 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1233247559.4412.122.camel@goose.sun.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <708075f8f47e3197600a9cbdf1dc3769@quanstro.net>
On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 08:37 -0500, erik quanstrom wrote:
> > and as you well point out, the skils of a schizophrenic monkey for
> > managing local changes.
>
> well then, please show me how hg/git or whatever would save
> me from the situation outlined. how would hg/git know that
> i was really using some code which i had never locally modified
> and was then removed on sources?
it wouldn't. but the fact that it encourages a three step process:
1. get the immutable history (whatever it is) but don't modify your
write buffer
2. inspect history. Git offers quite a few nice tools to manage your
local changes in the interim, but it is conceptually similar to
formatting an extra fossil buffer with a score corresponding to
the "tip" of the history and simply comparing it to what you have.
3. only when you are absolutely certain, you combine your local
changes with whatever history brought you, then you commit and
get the new score
makes it far less dangerous. With replica (on those two or three
occasions that I used it) it seemed that your only option is
to "hope for the best". It doesn't manage history. It manages
your write buffer.
Thanks,
Roman.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-29 16:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 75+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-23 11:56 Gregory Pavelcak
2009-01-23 14:15 ` erik quanstrom
2009-01-23 14:54 ` lucio
2009-01-23 15:09 ` erik quanstrom
2009-01-27 22:59 ` Uriel
2009-01-27 23:32 ` Russ Cox
2009-01-28 0:58 ` Kenji Arisawa
2009-01-28 5:06 ` Uriel
2009-01-28 11:46 ` Iruata Souza
2009-01-28 12:41 ` Charles Forsyth
2009-01-28 13:53 ` erik quanstrom
2009-01-29 12:12 ` Uriel
2009-01-29 13:37 ` erik quanstrom
2009-01-29 16:45 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik [this message]
2009-01-29 16:15 ` ron minnich
2009-01-29 16:34 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-01-29 16:30 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-01-29 17:18 ` Russ Cox
2009-01-29 17:30 ` erik quanstrom
2009-01-29 17:43 ` Russ Cox
2009-01-29 17:39 ` gas
2009-01-29 21:09 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-01-29 21:42 ` erik quanstrom
2009-01-29 23:05 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-01-29 23:49 ` erik quanstrom
2009-01-30 0:28 ` Russ Cox
2009-01-30 4:46 ` [9fans] Venti and version control (Was: Sources Gone?) lucio
2009-01-30 5:18 ` [9fans] Sources Gone? lucio
2009-01-31 13:45 ` Bruce Ellis
2009-01-31 18:12 ` Akshat Kumar
2009-01-31 18:44 ` Bruce Ellis
2009-02-02 22:33 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-02-02 22:43 ` erik quanstrom
2009-02-02 23:26 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-02-02 23:39 ` erik quanstrom
2009-02-03 10:04 ` Richard Miller
2009-02-03 4:23 ` lucio
2009-02-03 5:23 ` erik quanstrom
2009-02-03 5:47 ` lucio
2009-02-03 12:54 ` erik quanstrom
2009-02-03 13:38 ` roger peppe
2009-02-03 14:01 ` erik quanstrom
2009-02-03 16:13 ` Anthony Sorace
2009-02-03 16:22 ` erik quanstrom
2009-02-03 16:51 ` roger peppe
2009-02-03 16:55 ` erik quanstrom
2009-02-03 17:30 ` Brian L. Stuart
2009-02-05 1:24 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-02-03 17:42 ` lucio
2009-02-03 17:40 ` lucio
2009-02-03 17:51 ` erik quanstrom
2009-02-04 8:40 ` sqweek
2009-02-04 16:40 ` [9fans] Some arithmetic [was: Re: Sources Gone?] Nathaniel W Filardo
2009-02-04 17:10 ` Nathaniel W Filardo
2009-02-04 17:49 ` hiro
2009-02-05 11:19 ` Dave Eckhardt
2009-02-05 17:38 ` Russ Cox
2009-02-05 17:41 ` erik quanstrom
2009-02-05 18:08 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-02-05 18:22 ` Micah Stetson
2009-02-05 18:29 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-02-05 18:31 ` erik quanstrom
2009-02-05 18:32 ` hiro
2009-01-30 4:25 ` [9fans] Sources Gone? lucio
2009-01-29 22:33 ` Russ Cox
2009-01-29 22:58 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-01-29 23:06 ` Russ Cox
2009-01-29 12:13 ` kokamoto
2009-01-27 23:11 ` Patrick Kristiansen
2009-01-28 0:11 ` Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan
2009-01-28 5:55 ` lucio
2009-01-29 18:00 erik quanstrom
2009-01-29 18:00 erik quanstrom
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2009-02-03 17:27 ` lucio
2009-02-05 1:20 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
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