Josh Boyer wrote:
On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:06:41 +0200
Karel Zak <kzak(a)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(a)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