[Tinyos-devel] [nescc-devel] nesC 1.3.0 beta3

[Philip Levis]

On Jun 24, 2008, at 7:44 PM, Razvan Musaloiu-E. wrote:

>> It also makes branching a little easier. Git has these benefits, plus
>> the ability to maintain a local repository.
>
> I consider this a very useful feature but I know that Phil  
> doesn't. :-(

I think the local repository is kind of neat. But basically, I'm wary  
of going back to someone periodically losing four hours debugging  
because someone accidentally checked in a change to the AM group.

My experience is that the time managing branches in CVS is a little  
tricky is when the branched-from code progresses independently. In  
TinyOS, development tends to be such that a given file has very few  
people who modify it. So branching out, then merging it back in is not  
a big deal, as long as you are careful to tag when you branch.

>>
> How about moving the tinyos-2.x to SVN and keeping the tinyos-2- 
> contrib in CVS?
>

When we set up contrib, it seemed really important to have contrib in  
the same repository as TinyOS itself, to increase its visibility.

> Another thing that makes SF very annoying is the fact that is very- 
> very slow from time to time. Sometime in the most inappropriate  
> moments. :|

Fair enough -- but I'm not sure that it's worse than any other  
provider in this regard. And not having to worry about physical  
machines, the integrity of data, or the longevity of the site, is a  
big relief.

Phil