[Kde-scm-interest] Distributed model VS accountability

[Johannes Sixt]

Thiago Macieira schrieb:
> Em Tuesday 27 November 2007 18:16:07 você escreveu:
>> Both check out branch 'master'. Developer A pushes his fix onto branch
>> 'master' into the repo. Developer B wants to push to 'master', but is
>> denied, because his change does not fast-forward. So he must fetch again,
>> rebase his fix on the new 'master', push again. If he's lucky and nobody
>> else had pushed something in the meantime, he can ultimately push onto
>> 'master'.
> 
> This is the workflow that I had envisioned, yes.
> 
> It requires a lot more fetch + rebase.

This will not take off. DSCMs simply won't work in this way (once you have 
more than two people who are not within earshot). If you really mean to stay 
with this kind of workflow, then a transition to any DSCM will be a disaster.

-- Hannes