Re:No code reviews by default
by jeffbee on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @07:56PM
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No, it is Linus who makes a bunch of claims about how Perforce is worse, in the video.
If two people edit the same line of code based on the same original version, that's a conflict and there's nothing any SCM can do about it. Human must merge. But there's no reason that several developers can't work on different functions or other disjoint areas of the same file, unlike what Linus is claiming in the video.
The video is essentially a long straw-man argument where Linus takes shitty part of CVS and SVN, which were terrible, and applies them to Perforce, which it's clear he has never used.
If two people edit the same line of code based on the same original version, that's a conflict and there's nothing any SCM can do about it. Human must merge. But there's no reason that several developers can't work on different functions or other disjoint areas of the same file, unlike what Linus is claiming in the video.
The video is essentially a long straw-man argument where Linus takes shitty part of CVS and SVN, which were terrible, and applies them to Perforce, which it's clear he has never used.