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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] New to list, need advice on naming repositories.
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David Allouche |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] New to list, need advice on naming repositories. |
Date: |
Fri, 25 Mar 2005 15:59:52 +0100 |
On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 13:04 -0600, address@hidden wrote:
> At the beginning, I expect to just give most developers a one-page cheat
> sheet that tells them how to commit in their own archive and how to
> star-merge from the project archive. Project leads will get trained on
> how to star-merge from the developer's archives. Myself and another
> person will handle pulling projects into a "next release" repository.
Also, the initial setup can be quite tedious and confusing depending on
the amount of infrastructure you need:
* registering archives
* policy on naming and location of new archives
* revision libraries on workstations (pretty much obligatory)
* remote and local archive mirrors (may or may not be needed,
depending on individual needs)
* signing rules (probably not needed if you are not distributed
geographically)
* pqm user tools and mail system setup (if you decide to use pqm)
You should probably get a clear ideas of what are your precise needs in
terms of initial setup and provide at least a "getting started" cheat
sheet, and at best a set of scripts, so your users won't start by
getting frustrated.
One important thing: emphasise that users should never "remove an
existing archive or branch and start from scratch". That's a very common
mistake made by new users and it leads to hell because it breaks the
model and causes cache coherence problems that can lead to corrupted
data.
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