Merits of ClearCase

Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
Mon Dec 14 14:21:00 GMT 2009


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According to Marc Girod on 12/14/2009 7:11 AM:
> It is trivial to get atomicity of publication in ClearCase (within one vob):
> you rename a label type.

That's a workaround, not a solution.  Any VCS that requires an O(n) (n as
the number of files being labeled) labeling post-processing pass in order
to create enough records in the database to track commits atomically, when
there are O(1) solutions like git where commits are atomic _without any
additional effort), is just too slow to be worth anything in my opinion.

Besides, git is open source, clearcase is not.  If git doesn't do what you
want, then you can patch it.  If clearcase doesn't do what you want, too bad.

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Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
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