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wish: better access control

wish: better access control

Posted Sep 18, 2005 15:40 UTC (Sun) by dann (subscriber, #11621)
In reply to: wish: better access control by man_ls
Parent article: Mercurial: an alternative to git

Having a single leader that applies all the changes is simply NOT the way
a lot of (probably most) software is developed. Allowing more that one person to make changes is very important.


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wish: better access control

Posted Sep 18, 2005 16:40 UTC (Sun) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link]

It is not how software is developed nowadays, but simply because we use the old paradigm of "single repository -- multiple branches". If we switched to a new distributed paradigm, where a developer publishes her changes and a leader imports them in order to make a version, these new tools would become indispensable. But don't you think that applying the old way of thinking to the new source management model would just add needless complexity?

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