RE: Using Shadow Repository

Question

Hello Celso,
To answer your question - only one person can be using a Forte' Workspace
at any given time. You cannot share Workspaces.
Shadow repositories are independant of Workspace usage. Shadow repositories
are essentially a local cache, designed to reduce the network traffic
between the development client and server, and to reduce the load on the
repository server.
In general you should always use a shadow repository.
I hope that this helps you.
Best regards,
Richard Kirk
Digital Equipment Corp.

Answer 1

Celso,
We use the shadow repository to speed up response while developing.
There is a Forte Tech Note 10677 that covers shadow repositories and
their uses.
We constantly work as a team 3 to 4 people on one Forte project. Each
user creates their own workspace containing the Forte Project(s). We
then coordinate who will work on what class and perform frequent
integrations to the Central Repository to allow the other users to
obtain the new changes.
If two users need the same class one can make a branch while the other
has the class checked out. We try to insure when branching we are
creating new methods on the class. In this way when the class is checked
in, the user who has the branch performs and update. The user receives a
warning that there is a discrepancy and Forte updates the class and
changes the branch class to an acorn class with a similar name.
The user then checks out the updated class and moves the methods from
acorn to the checked out class. The acorn class can then be deleted and
the second user can now integrate his/her changes to the central
repository.
IF changes are made to the same methods then you must do the above and
then cut and paste from the acorn class to the updated class.
As you can see from the above we try to avoid working in the same class
as much as possible. The other use for a branch would be to try a change
on a checked out class and then remove the branch putting the class back
to the way it was before it was branched. If the change worked and was
minor we would ask the other user to put it in or allow us access to
their workspace for us to add the code.
Hope this helps.
Thank you,
Mike Pocalyko
From: C. M. Motta[SMTP:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, November 08, 1996 7:50 AM
To: Forte_Users_List
Subject: Using Shadow Repository
Forte Users,
Here I am again! New questions for you...
This time I intend to work with a group ( me and another
programmer ) in the same project. But we`ve never done that, and we're
facing some problems with shadow repository. Is that the best way to work
? And how it's done? We need to be able to work on the same Workspace at
the same time. Does Shadow Repos handle that? What do we need? Which one
makes his own shadow, or one of us should work with a shadow and the other
one directly with the central repos?
If there is any detail I forgot here, please tell me. Also, Im
sorry if all the answers are on the manual, I've read it, but true
experience is better, isnt it?
Thanks for your help,
Celso M. Motta