[Info-vax] Where to locate software
Bob Koehler
koehler at eisner.nospam.decuserve.org
Tue Jun 14 09:52:55 EDT 2016
In article <njnoq5$tjj$1 at dont-email.me>, "Craig A. Berry" <craigberry at nospam.mac.com> writes:
>
> The "D" in DVCS stands for distributed. If you have to wait for someone
> else to finish with a file before you can work on it, you're doing the
> opposite of distributed development and are defeating concurrency in
> your development process. Too much locking increases contention in human
> systems as well as software systems.
Exactly the comment I was expecting.
If you think locking means no concurrent development, you don't know
electronic CM systems very well. Unlocked access is only one way to
achieve concurrency.
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