Fix a botched log-message

Aaron Bentley aaron at aaronbentley.com
Wed Apr 2 19:45:20 BST 2008


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Wichmann, Mats D wrote:
> Aaron Bentley wrote:
> Adjusting a mistyped commit
> message is not the same as the "NLC" question

I was responding to an NLC scenario.

> The problem, a little less concisely than "history is
> immutable" is that in a distributed system

I deliberately chose the term "decentralized" in my description, because
the problem is not that the database is distributed, it's that all
copies of the database are equally authoritative.

> A
> company may be able to do this in a very tightly controlled 
> environment, mainly through /policy/: the "master" branch
> is controlled by a CM guru, and thou must sync to that
> frequently, and if not there are consequences, and definitely
> don't ever let any outsider have access to the repository, etc.

i.e. imposing centralized control.

Aaron
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