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Submission + - Linus on branching practices (blogspot.com)

Submitted by rocket22
rocket22 writes: Not long ago Linus Torvalds made some comments about issues the kernel maintainers were facing while applying the "feature branch" pattern. They are using Git (which is very strong with branching and merging) but still need to take care of the branching basics to avoid ending up with unstable branches due to unstable starting points. While most likely your team doesn't face the same issues the kernel development does, and even if you're using a different DVCS like Mercurial, is worth to take a look at the description of the problem and the clear solution to be followed in order to avoid repeating the same mistakes. The same basics can be applied to every version control system with good merge tracking, so let's avoid religious wars and focus on the technical details.

Comment Re:Advertising disguised as history lesson. (Score 1) 244

by rocket22 (#34257514) Attached to: An Illustrated Version Control Timeline
Hey, wasn't Linus Torvalds himself who said "you must be brain dead to use CVS"?? Don't shoot the messenger!

Small companies need to be creative, share information, tell stories... I guess that's the goal of the post. If the Plastic SCM guys were Microsoft they would be on slashdot everyday, don't you think?

Submission + - An illustrated version control timeline (blogspot.com)

Submitted by rocket22
rocket22 writes: Most software developers are supposed to be using the latest in tech and see themselves as living on the edge of software innovation. But, are they aware of how old some of the tools they use on a daily basis are? There are teams out there developing iPad software and checking in code inside arcane CVS repositories. Aren't we in the 21th century, the age of distributed version control? The blog post goes through some of the most important version control systems on the last three decades and while it doesn't try to come up with an extremely detailed thesis, it does a good job creating a catalog of some of the most widely spread or technologically relevant SCMs.

The timeline on the post highlights the kind of cellular phones used by the time the SCMs were released, giving a good picture of how old some of them are already...

From Visual Source Safe to Git, from Clearcase to Mercurial, the post covers the weaknesses and strengths of a good number of version control systems out there.
Encryption

Submission + - 15% of the internet routed through China in April (washingtontimes.com)

Submitted by olsmeister
olsmeister writes: For 18 minutes this past April, 15% of the world's internet traffic was routed through servers in China. This includes traffic from both .gov and .mil US TLD's. Is this related to the recent hacking of gmail accounts that appear to have originated in China? Probably not ... but the moral of the story is, if you're sending sensitive information across the net, make sure it is encrypted.

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