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Re: [Monotone-devel] mtn copy anyone?
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Ethan Blanton |
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Re: [Monotone-devel] mtn copy anyone? |
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Fri, 17 Aug 2007 10:12:39 -0400 |
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Brian May spake unto us the following wisdom:
> Nathaniel> actually affect the history model -- then there are
> Nathaniel> questions like how it works through merging. This is
> Nathaniel> unclear too; there are a few alternative, contradictory
> Nathaniel> "natural" semantics for copy WRT merge. (There's a
> Nathaniel> little about this at
> Nathaniel> http://www.venge.net/mtn-wiki/HistoryBlueSky.)
>
> I would prefer we stayed out of this mess. Don't explicitly track
> history, but maybe record some sort of pointer indicating where the
> file came from, if required.
>
> Or maybe track history, but only for some commands like annotate, and
> definitely not merging. This might be confusing though.
Note that this is what svn does, and it is *really* annoying. The
shear between what works as one would expect and what does not is
non-obvious. That isn't to say that monotone couldn't do better, but
generally speaking, information which "vanishes" for some operations
is frustrating.
Ethan
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