rbsmith

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by rbsmith 5d ago
> I'm still left sort of scratching my head at the concept in a bytestream-oriented world instead of in the record-oriented world where I have, say, a deck of JCL cards and for which record-level inclusions and exclusions make sense
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by rbsmith 5d ago
If you don't know otherwise, then no. Version control has always been a small market, and with Git, it's harder, because that sweet spot has been removed. If you have some great reasons to say yes (Perforce, GitButler, ERSC) such
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by rbsmith 5d ago
Depends on the industry and specifics of a company. Are they game developers with multiple sites? Is the customer a large company with a lot of vendor relationships using different systems? Are they a vendor of some customizable component u
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by rbsmith 5d ago
This is more a response to many of the comments here than to the article, offering a perspective of what value they might bring. I’ve spent about 35+ years in and around version control / SCM, with half of that being part of the BitKee
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by rbsmith 1mo ago
I'm working my way through "Improving Heuristics for A* Pathfinding". Thank you so much, HN! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49079995
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by rbsmith 6mo ago
Do you use Pijul? From time to time, I do a 'pijul pull -a' into the pijul source tree, and I get a conflict (no local work on my part). Is there a way to do a tracking update pull? I didn't see one, so I toss the repo and re
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by rbsmith 7mo ago
> there is no way to separate it There is git subtree --help May get complicated at the edges, as files move across boundaries. It's a hard problem. And for some subset of those problems, subtree does give a way to split and join.
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by rbsmith 2y ago
Baumol’s Cost Disease or Baumol Effect [1]. Thanks for mentioning. I think it deserves more air time, especially looking at typical responses (raising price, reducing quality) and the consequences (raising prices raises expectations, trigge
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by rbsmith 2y ago
I worked on bk > The data received was SCCS, which was an understood format with existing tools. You'd be surprised. SCCS is not broadly understood. And BK is not exactly SCCS. I read the SourcePuller code when it was published (sp-
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by rbsmith 3y ago
I had him as a teacher for my 2nd CS class in 1976, I think it was data structures using Pascal. I don't think I had another class which we laughed so much. Enough learning and fun that I considered switching my major from EE. And then
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by rbsmith 5y ago
Yes! Thank you. On to exploring!
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by rbsmith 5y ago
The blc.S didn’t build for me using `-oformat:binary` . Changing to `--oformat=binary` it compiled, but then get core dumps. Running Linux x86_64 up to date Ubuntu 20.04.4 . for cc in cc gcc clang do echo "## $cc"
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by rbsmith 6y ago
An example: The 4th paragraph from the end of section II talks about optional deltas. It's like ifdefs in a version control system: many version can be checkout with or without some of the deltas. While not part of many version control
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by rbsmith 6y ago
A reasonable direction to go, and I'll give sort of a non-response. For me, it's to take some time to absorb and celebrate this paper. If I go too quickly to doing better, I tend to miss the amazing. It also makes it easier for me
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by rbsmith 6y ago
This amazing paper holds a special place in my heart: my marked up 1992 copy serving me well when working as a graph and weave engineer on BitKeeper. To me, SCCS is both a marvel and a disappointment. A marvel because its graph and weave we
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by rbsmith 6y ago
All the files that begin with L in : https://github.com/bitkeeper-scm/tcl/tree/master/generic
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by rbsmith 9y ago
Maybe because Mercurial is GPL? I saw that too, and wondered as you did. https://www.mercurial-scm.org/repo/hg/file/tip/COPYING
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by rbsmith 9y ago
> I've never had an SFO<->PIT flight without layovers. About 10 years ago, I did a round trip a month, each under $300 and all flights non-stop. Then USAirways hub status left, and the pain set in.
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by rbsmith 10y ago
Interesting. "^AI Spec" where Spec feeds into a predicate f(Spec, Version) to control printing a particular Version? Looks like you could drop the ^AE lines.
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by rbsmith 10y ago
Thank you! A peek into the (as far as I know) into root node of source control history.
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by rbsmith 10y ago
| CDC's MODIFY and Cray's clone UPDATE, were kind of like SCCS Do you have references? I've heard of these but haven't come across details after much creative searching since they are common words.