Generalizations

[billroper]

So this morning, after I finally got the first version of the background file check in code checked in to our version control system (apparently with no further disasters), I talked to the guy in charge of our group and said, "How about I take an extra half-day on the project and turn this into a generalized background process handler for our app?"

He thought it was a good idea and so I have.

Unfortunately, someone seems to have changed something somewhere in the build, because I'm not building. So it's time to (slowly) update my local node and see where I end up.

*sigh*

But it'll be nice when it's all done... :)

Update: And an hour later, I'm still trying to complete the check in of all the files.

ClearCase: The World's Slowest Version Control System^TM

Comments

[controuble.livejournal.com]

Do you use the text version or xclearcase?
The windows interface does tend to slow it down a bit, but I don't think anything was worse than using sccs at 300 baud.

[billroper]

I'm using "Remote ClearCase".

And I'm now at 1.5 hours and counting.

With one file that won't check in, because the VOB appears to have disowned it between this afternoon when I checked it out and now.

[mdlbear]

Not sure about "World's Slowest" -- I've had to use Mercurial on occasion. Git, on the other hand, probably does take the prize for world's fastest.

I don't seem to have your shipping address.

[billroper]

I suppose, but I was only trying to check in a dozen files before going home for the weekend. That should take less than five minutes per file in any rational system -- but apparently not in any Rational system.

[mdlbear]

OK, I think that probably wins.

I'm used to systems where five seconds per file is slow for anything under a couple of MB. (Checking in a couple of GB of audio can still take a while, even with git.)

[whl.livejournal.com]

The world's slowest source code control system was Visual Source Safe, used over a network, from CodeWarrior on the Mac.

I remember leaving a check-in running over a weekend once.