Need hints for Repository structure

Alan Boudreault aboudreault at mapgears.com
Mon Nov 2 13:34:13 CST 2009


A problem that I see is that using something like that make the reliability a 
little bit more complicated..... ie: for hgweb/hgwebdir and the trac browser 
etc.

Thanks,
Alan

On November 2, 2009 01:03:23 pm Masklinn wrote:
> On 2 Nov 2009, at 18:38 , Alan Boudreault wrote:
> > Sorry Masklinn, I'm not sure to understand the following point:
> > "at the interface/ social level but none at the physical level"
> 
> You could present your repositories in client-specific pages/groups
> (instead of a flat list of all the repositories in the same hgwebdir
> view), but that's purely presentational, it doesn't have any impact
> (or source) in the structures of the repositories themselves.
> 
> Due to their flexibility, DVCS — I think — tend to encourage moving
> social concepts into the social sphere (rather than the technical
> one): DVCS don't have a (technical) notion of "central repository" the
> way CVCS do for instance, but most projects do have some kind of
> foremost/primary repository/source. It's a purely social construct
> (and it could change if need be). Well the view I suggest above is
> just that, not really technical but depending on the way your teams
> work (e.g. teams are client-based or something) it might make sense to
> build keep the concept of client at the social/interface level even
> though as far as the repositories go (the technical level) it doesn't
> really exist anymore.
> 

-- 
Alan Boudreault
Mapgears
http://www.mapgears.com



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