Abandon your DVCS and return to sanity

Re:Abandon your DVCS and return to sanity by sgift on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @04:39PM (#9140952)

Your machine will stop working sometimes, far more often than your office network stops working(1) and then all your nice little, local commits which haven't been pushed so far are down the gutter. There's always a trade-off, you just have to know it and work accordingly.

(1) If this doesn't apply to your office network get a better network. Now.

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Re:Abandon your DVCS and return to sanity by lmm on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @05:23PM (#9141209)

> Your machine will stop working sometimes, far more often than your office network stops working(1)

Bollocks. I've had two machine failures in eight years, versus at least 20 network failures. Sure, maybe the network admins at five different companies I've worked for all just happen to be a bunch of muppets, but I highly doubt it.

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Re:Abandon your DVCS and return to sanity by sgift on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @10:17PM (#9142457)

> Sure, maybe the network admins at five different companies I've worked for all just happen to be a bunch of muppets, but I highly doubt it.

That's your privilege. I don't. The only time I remember the network going down was after a complete air conditioning failure in the server room (a highly unlikely event in itself, but not IMPOSSIBLE) which forced a complete shutdown of IT services. And even then people could still work. Sure, not as well as usual but working was possible. The last time a machine failed was .. oh right. Yesterday.

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Re:Abandon your DVCS and return to sanity by lmm on Wednesday March 04, 2015 @05:21AM (#9143508)

Your machine, or anyone's machine? Remember to multiply a network failure by the number of people if you're doing that kind of comparison.

Also, get better machines. The last time a machine failed at this all-macbook shop was several months ago.

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Re:Abandon your DVCS and return to sanity by acdha on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @05:03PM (#9141096)

This statement reflects a misunderstanding of the problem:

In either case, you will lose unpublished work in the event of a catastrophic local drive failure.

Only in the case of a centralized system, you will also be unable to work unless the entire network path and remote server is available. This will almost never be a question of data loss but it means that you will be unable to perform version control operations until it's resolved.

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