Re: NTK on Subversion & others

Brad Appleton <brad@bradapp.net> writes:
> So regarding codeville, I beleive BitKeeper boasts a similar
> feature (and also of knowing the "true" version that introduced
> a line/change (rather than simply propagating it). Didn't Aide
> De Campe (ADC -- now TRUEchange) claim to do much the same
> thing in its early days via much the same mechanism, that is
> tagging each delta with a unique id?

Think so, yes. (Never used Aide De Campe, have only heard tales...)

> I don't know the SVN codebase that well, but from what I've been
> able to absorb from this list, it seems to me like this kind
> of feature wouldn't be too radically difficult to add to SVN
> in some later release. Is that so?

Hmmm. I just realized, in trying to answer this, that I'm not sure

   a) What "similar feature" in CodeVille you were referring to, and

   b) What it means to know the "true" version that introduced a
      line/change (rather than simply propagating it), and

   c) In (b), whether the second "it" refers to the line/change, or to
      the version :-)

I assume that in (b), we're talking about something more sophisticated
than just 'svn blame' ('cvs annotate')?

Subversion tags each delta with a unique ID -- the ID being the
revision number. And 'blame' allows you to go from a piece of a
change back to its ID. But I have the feeling I'm just not using
enough imagination here, and that you mean something much broader...

-Karl

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Received on Thu Mar 11 17:49:35 2004