Re: [boost] [1.41][serialization] MSVC 9 crashes on compilation

Subject: Re: [boost] [1.41][serialization] MSVC 9 crashes on compilation
From: troy d. straszheim (troy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-11-16 09:41:54

Eugene Wee wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> As an experiment, I've locked branches/release while I build a new
>> release candidate.
>>
>> One problem: It took just one minute shy of two hours to apply the
>> lock. That's no fun. Presumably it will take another two hours to
>> unlock it. As an aside, I wonder how long the equivalent operation
>> would have taken with Git?
> 
> I am a Bazaar user, not a Git user, so pardon my ignorance: is there
> even an equivalent operation for Git? I would think that one would
> just use a local branch and thus be oblivious to any further changes
> committed, except when pulling from the remote release branch
> intentionally.

You're right, there is no such operation, the distributed architecture 
makes it unnecessary.

-t