A real life replication package story

[Soho]

Hi,

I just want to share a case story of real distributed version control, where Plastic shone.

A team member flew to a client in a neighboring country to install a new product upgrade in a client's test environment. As anticipated, several changes had to be made in the source code on site.

There was a small problem though, no internet access for externals. Instead all changes were committed to a repository server installed on the laptop, but we didn't want to install patched code made on the laptop. We wanted a real build made by our build server at home.

The solution was quite simple though. My team member simply exported replication packages for the locally created change branches and ask a client to email those change packages to me, where I easily could import the changes into our main repository and start a build.

This scenario would probably be possible with most DVCS, but it worked like a charm with Plastic.

[psantosl]

Hey Soho!!

Thank you very much for the testimonial!!!!