[Gnu-arch-users] Re: multiple archives or multiple project branches?

[Eric S. Johansson]

Charles Duffy wrote:

> My advice:
>
> Use the same archive for related projects.
>
> For instance, at work, I wear multiple hats: IT, deployment, and DB
> support scripting. Different people need access to each of those, and
> the deployment people don't care about IT projects. Consequently, I want
> to keep my IT projects in one archive, my deployment projects in
> another, etc. However, for distinguishing between multiple IT projects,
> I just put them in different categories.

that's what I figured I want to make sure I wasn't marking up the wrong 
tree.  Now I just have to get familiar enough with the arch command set 
so I can easily switch between archives.  Actually, what I need to do is 
write a grammar for NaturallySpeaking to let me switch between archives 
without breaking my hands any further.  It's going to be especially 
tricky what I start querying for data (i.e. what archives are out there) 
and then feeding that information back into the grammar.  Oh yeah, 
speech recognition interfaces does create some apparently weird patterns.

the next hurdle to cross was the thing that stopped me the last time we 
talked.  And that is dealing with CVS on source forge.  Anybody live 
close enough that we could just buy enough beers to convince them to 
switch over?  Failing that, I will probably have to figure out how to 
use one of the two cvs integration tools keep things in bidirectional 
synchronization.  On the other hand, I could always strip all developers 
of check-in power and tell them where to get things by arch and only 
occasionally push things up.  bound to be very popular.  ;-)

well thanks for help.  Now I have just added arch and webdav to my 
things to learn more about real soon know.  On the plus side, camram is 
live and helping folks with spam, was written up in a bunch of places 
and I had an article published on technology review web site.  Now I'm 
following in Tom's footsteps and trying to make money from something 
that has been a passion/obsession.

after all, if it was a boring life, it wasn't much of a life.

---eric