[ILUG] CVS replacement....

[John P. Looney]

On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 12:42:46PM +1100, Justin Mason mentioned:
> This is the issue alright -- as Kate said, committing code to a source
> code control system is a big deal.  You really are committing to it ;)
> 
> (I remember some really really hairy moments with ClearCase in the past
> when some ludicrous can't-cope-with-no-disk-space bug totally f***ed up
> its history, requiring some __serious__ backup-restores and days of work
> by engineers to rebuild the files from their checked-out versions. :( 
> Not a decision to take lightly, esp for commercial work!)

 Hmm. I remember doing on Solaris support with a customer of Sun &
ClearCase. Basically, ClearCase was having a massive corruption problem,
and kept restoring from backups, the corruption would happen again, so
they blamed the hardware. After replacing the whole poxy machine, it
turned out that ClearCase had corrupted something else, way back, and
references to that made it corrupt other bits. To the large dublin
developer, they just said "here is the patch, it won't happen again". 

 Damn right, as they threw the whole lot out, after losing the revision
history on pretty much two years of development....

Kate

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