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I find it fantastically useful to have the entire revision history on local disk, it makes it practical to actually do ridiculous searches through all of the hi
by mmagin 12y ago
I find it fantastically useful to have the entire revision history on local disk, it makes it practical to actually do ridiculous searches through all of the history. Try doing that against your svn server.
- gecko 12y agoYou're simply defining weaknesses of Subversion, not centralized versus distributed in either direction. E.g., we made blame for Git repos in Kiln ridiculously fast by caching memoized states for each file. You could also do that locally; we happened to do it server-side because it made more sense. There's no reason that an outright centralized system couldn't do that (and indeed, some do, though neither CVS nor Subversion).
- pm24601 12y agocan you expand on this? How did you do that? do you have a script?
- kstenerud 12y agoYou don't need your own copy of the universe in order to search like that. You only need the capability built into the source-of-all-truth.
- DominikD 12y agoAt the same time you're not grabbing a local copy of The Internetz to search them and your searches are sufficiently fast. This is not a problem of centralized (from the point of view of the user of course) VCS but quality of a particular implementation.