From: Adam Spiers <orgmode@adamspiers.org>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Re: Subversion for backups?
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 11:49:56 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091104114955.GB18202@atlantic.linksys.moosehall> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20090827T192206-660@post.gmane.org>
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 05:27:40PM +0000, Robert Goldman wrote:
> FWIW, my feelings are the exact opposite of Matt's --- I find the added
> complexity of having multiple repositories to manage and the general added
> complexity of git quite unwelcome.
>
> If you are trying to keep multiple machines in sync, I find that a centralized
> repository scheme is far simpler: all you need to do is manage the relationship
> between your working copies and the repository, and that relationship is a very
> simple one.
This centralized model is also entirely possible with git.
> If you have a distributed revision control system and multiple different
> repositories, you must manage the relationship between the different
> repositories and the relationship between those repositories and your working
> copies. Because of the peer-to-peer aspect, this is a complex quadratic mesh of
> relationships to manage, instead of the simple linear relationship you have with
> a centralized repository.
It's not quadratic - it's still linear because it's quite unnecessary
to have every repository interacting with every other.
> I would say that if (1) you generally are connected to the internet, with only
> minor intervals offline and (2) have access to a hosted svn repository (so you
> don't manage it yourself, and so that you can use the simple https protocol
> instead of fussing with ssh tunneling), then you are likely to find svn much
> simpler. I am fortunate that both of these hold for me.
I disagree - I think using git with a centralized model provides the
best of both worlds: simplicity but also all the nice benefits of
decentralization such as offline commit and history access,
intelligent merging etc. Lots of people do it this way, e.g.
http://feeding.cloud.geek.nz/2008/12/setting-up-centralied-git-repository.html
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-04 11:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-25 21:27 Subversion for backups? Kyle Sexton
2009-08-25 22:16 ` Bernt Hansen
2009-08-26 12:49 ` Rainer Stengele
2009-08-26 13:37 ` Kyle Sexton
2009-08-26 13:38 ` Kyle Sexton
2009-08-26 14:30 ` Manish
2009-08-26 18:06 ` Matt Lundin
2009-08-27 17:27 ` Robert Goldman
2009-11-04 11:49 ` Adam Spiers [this message]
2009-11-04 14:01 ` Rick Moynihan
2009-11-10 13:49 ` Eric S Fraga
2009-08-31 15:05 ` Sébastien Vauban
2009-08-31 21:16 ` Rainer Stengele
2009-09-02 15:26 ` Sébastien Vauban
2009-09-05 13:28 ` Greg Newman
2009-09-07 22:31 ` Bastien
2009-09-08 8:42 ` Greg Newman
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