Re: [Boost-users] What's happened to Ryppl?

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] What's happened to Ryppl?
From: Eric J. Holtman (eric_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-01-28 11:07:05

On 1/28/2011 9:59 AM, Ted Byers wrote:

> 
> This may be adequate IF you're working alone and if you have all the time in
> the world, but it will become an unmaintainable nightmare when the number of
> programmers contributing to the project increases significantly and as time
> pressures grow.  Imagine the chaos that would result from this if you had a
> dozen programmers doing this independantly to the same codebase.  

You proceed from a false assumption.  You might have
1000 commits in your local copy.  When you're done, and
ready to publish, you "push" it as one.

No different than SVN.

> commercial app that has half a million lines of code, or more, it is just
> too easy to break things (there are practical and commercial reasons for
> rational modularization as results in object oriented programming, as well
> as proper management/design of compilation units, &c.).
>

Again, no one sees your changes until your ready.  It's
there to help the individual.  How often have you been
in the middle of a large change to quite a few files, then
said "oh, this sucks", and revert it.  Then, a half
hour later, you decide "Oh, wait, 100 of those lines (out of
the 1000 you just threw away) might be useful".

With SVN, you're hosed.   With git, you're not.