Re: RFC: Untangling the peg revision knot (was: A preliminary study of non-contiguous transformations in the Hilbert space of Alexandrian solutions)

C. Michael Pilato wrote:
> Branko Čibej wrote:
>
>> It appears that all the people I've ever spoken to, except for some on
>> this list, are early Subversion users and are confused by the
>> *incompatible change in behaviour* that happened with the introduction
>> of peg revisions.
>>
>
> Yes, but "I don't think we ever promised to be eternally compatible with
> bugs."
>

I was ready for that one. I ducked and it went right past me without
causing any damage. :)

>> Note that I've known about peg revs from day one and how they work, and
>> *still* get bitten by a change that I find non-intuitive.
>>
>> I wonder if it would make sense to do a survey on the users@ list about
>> this. I prophesy that most responses would be either "what's a peg
>> revision?" or "yes, I get bitten by that all the time."
>>
>
> As would I. And I'd blame the authors of that ridiculous Subversion book
> for it, too.
>
*rofl*

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Received on 2008-11-26 21:46:29 CET