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Re: Merge policies

From: Branko Čibej <brane_at_apache.org>
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 18:39:14 +0200

On 19.04.2012 16:02, Paul Burba wrote:
> Just one thing I'm wondering about:
>> This should give us enough time to improve
>> the merge logic inside the SVN libs.
> Which improvements are these exactly? What is documented in
> http://wiki.apache.org/subversion/SymmetricMerge?action=show&redirect=SvnMergeTheory
> or something more?
>
> Also curious about your mention of "Enough time", is there a deadline
> your group is under?

I missed this part before ... I'd like to point out that a developing a
set of optional hooks that add restrictions to merging will not, in
fact, give you any more time or let you drop support for edge cases from
the merge algorithm (implementation). The key word here is "optional",
so all you actually get is time /spent/ for developing the hooks, you
can never force everyone to install all your restrictive hooks.

-- Brane
Received on 2012-04-19 18:39:22 CEST

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