Re: BitBucket: GPL-ed KitBeeper clone

From: Pavel Machek (pavel@ucw.cz)
Date: Wed Mar 12 2003 - 19:05:46 EST


Hi!

> > A separate repository doesn't have this problem
>
> You're wrong.
>
> The problem is _distribution_. In other words, two people rename the same
> file. Or two people rename two _different_ files to the same name. Or two
> people create two different files with the same name. What happens when
> you merge?
>
> None of these are issues for broken systems like CVS or SVN, since they

Actually this does not have much to do
with central repository. prcs has central
repository, too, but it has branches
(=multiple repositories in bk); so
yes you have the very same problem.

prcs does not have problems like trust
and non-synchronized time, through.
                                Pavel

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