Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 08:45:35 +0000 From: Nik Clayton <nik@ngo.org.uk> To: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Subversion? (Re: HEADS UP: Importing csup into base) Message-ID: <440BF6AF.7090604@ngo.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20060304163311.GA912@tara.freenix.org> References: <20060302155625.37140.qmail@web32714.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20060302160958.GA2035@flame.pc> <20060303082016.GA17730@stud.fit.vutbr.cz> <20060304163311.GA912@tara.freenix.org>
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Ollivier Robert wrote: > Now, I don't think subversion is the answer. It has some better things > than CVS (which is not difficult in itself) but still lacks a fundamental > feature: when you merge from a branch, it has no memory that you did so and > when. It is bad. Subversion is really two products. One is a network-aware versioned filesystem, the other is a set of tools for working on top of that filesystem. It's true that the standard tools shipped with Subversion don't support that feature, but there's no reason why Subversion-the-filesystem couldn't. Since the filesystem supports arbitrary named properties, you could use a different tool, alongside the tools that ship as part of Subversion-the-product, and store this information in the repository as properties. In fact, this is exactly what contrib/svnmerge in the Subversion distribution does. N
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