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From: Andrew DeFaria <Andrew@DeFaria.com>
Subject:  Re: Merits of ClearCase
Date:  Mon, 14 Dec 2009 08:39:31 -0700
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On 12/14/2009 07:21 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> 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.
Oh I forgot to say... This is really off topic for Cygwin really.
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