Fwd: [darcs-users] Conceptual questions about REPO s

[Sean]

Meant to reply to the list, so forwarding this now.

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From: Sean <schliden at gmail.com>
Date: Dec 8, 2006 2:05 AM
Subject: Re: [darcs-users] Conceptual questions about REPO s
To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org>


Thanks for all of your helpful replies. I really appreciate it.

I feel somewhat vindicated, in that it is clearly not a simple question.

I have always wondered how these SCM systems might work. I envisaged
all encompassing repositories that allowed one to store all sorts of
code fragments, that could be related/grouped into projects where
necessary and individually versioned.

The reality seems to be that we need fairly finite, tightly related
repositories, as each of the constituent parts of the repo are really
tied together as the version/state of the repo advances with each
patch.

Perhaps I should only version control specific projects that lend
themselves to this advancing group state ?

I do seem to have lots of single file projects however, that I guess
really need their own repo.

Clearly the idea of abstracting common/library code such that customer
specific config is done external to the common/library code is also a
central tenant in making this stuff work.

And there I was thinking that I was already anal about the
organisation of my computing environment. Clearly, I need to give this
alot more consideration.

I think I have just opened up a huge can o worms !

Thanks again all, for your advice.

Cheers

Sean