codavid

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   by codavid 16y ago

   My understanding is that mongodb is not durable ( http://ivoras.sharanet.org/blog/tree/2010-02-20.mongodb-and-... ) - I am not sure I understand how VoltDB is durable, though (but then I know nothing about db architecture).
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   by codavid 16y ago

   You do loose useful information, because you don't know where branches started/ended. For feature branches, that's very useful: useful for bisect, useful for reverting a branch. For syncing to upstream, that's indeed not so useful.
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   by codavid 16y ago

   I think git is much better than hg, but I think most complaints made in the post are fair. Git UI is truly awful. IMO, The two killer features of git are the index and content-based tracking. First the index makes dealing with OP situatio
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   by codavid 16y ago

   Which is exactly what the build service gives you...
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   by codavid 16y ago

   The .rpm vs .deb debate is a fallacy. The real issue is that when packaging for say debian and RHEL you have to care about different glibc, different compiler versions with potentially different ABI, different filesystem conventions, diff