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Mmmm, Company Policy is all I can say...
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Hm I thought you want a personal VCS? If it is for a company - then why the Dropbox thingy (?). Usually companies are pretty strict about privacy and such, i.e. they wouldn't allow you placing company owned code on a public insecure place like Dropbox.
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Well it was, I did want a way of not sending out the wrong version (which I have done!). Dropbox is seen as a useful tool as we are not dealing with proper secret stuff Well it was used by a contractor and spread....
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Florian Rappl wrote: Distributed is the way to go
Why? I've never used a distributed VCS until I start working on some Ruby on Rails projects last year, and there have been days where we spend more time f***ing around with getting our local repositories sync'd with git than we do solving problems. I often watch one of my cohorts go through 5 or 6 steps in git that would take one, or at most 2, with SVN.
I still am waiting for someone to give me a good reason for why distributed VCS is better. Care to give it a try? 
Marc
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Better workflow due to personal commits unrelated to major (sharing) commits. Actually everyone who has seen me work on SVN will at some point say "you are committing - again?!". I think in a good VCS you are committing after each successful build.
Then you finished something worth to be shared you are pushing your commits. Not before.
Another reason is that you are completely independent of a server - you just commit and once you got connection you are free to push - otherwise you keep your workflow. I am on the train / plane quite often and I do not have a connection there My workflow would be completely off the rails if I wouldn't use a DVCS.
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Florian Rappl wrote: Actually everyone who has seen me work on SVN will at some point say "you are committing - again?!".
I've seen that - what surprises me is how reluctant people are to commit (pun intended.) They use excuses like "it's not ready yet" and so forth, which I've found is just a way of hiding behind their piss poor work and they know it. 
So, I find your workflow refreshing. And yes, I can understand doing commits locally - though my workflow is a bit different, I'll make a commit at the end of the day if something is still in progress or I'll make a commit during the day if I reach a particular "step" in a coding process.
Florian Rappl wrote: My workflow would be completely off the rails if I wouldn't use a DVCS.
What I'm also curious about is, do you find it useful to make so many commits, in terms of reviewing the code, finding changes, etc.
Marc
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Well, here is where branches come in handy. After a bunch of commits I will branch out the current head pointer - with a version number. So that commit is marked and later on I will find myself either going directly to a branch with a version number (if I need to) or orienting myself according to those marked points.
Personally I have to say it is all about what you feel like doing. For me it is git, since my workflow is (after of course some learning time) highly adopted to it. In the end I feel like I am "addicted" to committing  .
To be honest for a "linear" history with gradual changes I think SVN is better - it's just super adopted to such a style. But but big projects with distributed (!) work-forces (i.e. people) I see clear advantages in a distributed style, where there is no linear history. There are people independently working on it, and in the end its the job of the VCS to get a unified code showing up. Its not the job of the VCS to fake a linear history - because in fact it wasn't linear. People might have been working on pieces of the code in parallel etc.
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Florian Rappl wrote: Actually everyone who has seen me work on SVN will at some point say "you are
committing - again?!". I think in a good VCS you are committing after each
successful build.
I like oatmeal raisin cookies but I am certainly not going to claim that everyone should give up pie and cake just because of that.
"I" think that you shouldn't check in until you have actually finished a piece of work. That provides accountability to the project and also allows one to track the impact of features.
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Yeah, Tortoise's icon-ification of files/folders is flaky. On my laptop, I actually disabled the rendering because it was also a huge performance hit. Not sure if they've addressed that in newer versions.
Marc
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Blake's Seven![^]
Quote: As part of Microsoft's push to develop original XBox One video content, the software company is financing "development and production" of the Blake's 7 reboot, although the Redmond, WA giant hasn't yet committed to a full season. Casino Royale/Green Lantern director Martin Campbell is still directing the pilot. This is all according to unnamed sources, of course, so take it with a grain of salt.
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TTFN - Kent
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I hope it's better than spending time on FB[^] 
It is a paradox that paradoxes would actually exist in reality.
That means of course that they don't exist.
However, they do!
∫(Edo )dx = Tzumer
∑k( this.Kid) k = this. ♥
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I can believe that.
I'm very happy to have facebook.com mapped to 127.0.0.1 on all my machines.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Quite a list of those  sites on my machines` hosts files too.
It is a paradox that paradoxes would actually exist in reality.
That means of course that they don't exist.
However, they do!
∫(Edo )dx = Tzumer
∑k( this.Kid) k = this. ♥
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An American "re-imagining" of B7? Sorry USians, but no thanks, I'd rather watch the originals.
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After what they did to Hitch Hikers, I'd tend to agree.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I don't know. I'm still trying to forget what they did with The Prisoner, but they do get occasionally lucky and find a good writer who can stay true to the original, but add something interesting to it.
Fingers crossed.
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TTFN - Kent
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'Bachelor' star Gia Allemand dies at 29 after apparent suicide attempt[^]
And no, I don't mean considering anything about a sureality TV "star" newsworthy. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Boy, that's one successful attempt. 
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That it doesn't read ... "at 27 and 2 days" ... instead?
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I "attempt" programming pretty much everyday. Most days I'm successful, some days I'm not, but doesn't mean that I didn't attempt it 
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A missing comma? I.e. ".. at 29, after apparent.."
"For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza
CP article: SmartPager - a Flickr-style pager control with go-to-page popup layer.
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"star", "dies", "apparent", "suicide", and "attempt" should be capitalised, and a comma is required after "29".
Bluddy amateurs.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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That she has died: Fact
That it was suicide: Not certain, hence apparent
That it was the suicide act that eventually led to death: Not certain, hence attempt
Perhaps.
That would be a very cautious jornalist mind, not often their strong point.
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I've worked too much with newspapers to expect them to get their facts right, but I do insist on bollocks being written using correct grammar and style.
... In fact, it's something of a speciality of mine...
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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