From: Kevin Smith Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 14:47:16 GMT Subject: Re: Last mile to 1.0? Message-ID: <42E25874.2090201@qualitycode.com> In-Reply-To: <20050723085031.GD3255@mythryan2.michonline.com> Ryan Anderson wrote: > Git falls into the category of distributed source code management tools, > similar to Arch or Darcs (or, in the commercial world, BitKeeper). This > means that every working directory is a full-fledged repository with > full revision tracking capabilities. That's not actually what "distributed" means. There are several distributed SCM tools[1] that store repo information outside the actual working directory. Perhaps that last sentence could be something like "This means that each developer has a local full-fledged repository with full revision tracking capabilities, not dependent on network access to a central server." I'm sure there are better wordings, but I hate to point out an problem without offering at least one possible improvement. Kevin [1] I believe that ArX, monotone, codeville, and svk all fall into this category. Possibly even Arch itself, although I haven't researched that.