[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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