Strategies for push/merge problem?

Michael Smith michael.smith at thalesatm.com
Mon Jul 28 17:39:45 CDT 2008


Sean Russell wrote:
> On Sunday 20 July 2008 11:34:55 am Douglas Philips wrote:
>> I think you are missing a "not" in  your sentence there. A CVS-like
>> "one and only one true central location" is the bottle-neck, single
>> point of failure. With the pull model, the pullers can be anywhere on
> 
> There are a dozen centralized VCSes, some of which have been around for a 
> decade or more, and I've never seen, nor heard, of any of them exhibiting 
> bottle-neck symptoms.

Locking is a problem in our CVS repository when load is high. Our 
development processes essentially use a pull model and this does create 
bottle-necks but it would be the same if we used a DCVS.
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