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Feature Request: [Was: Best way to maintain patches to a 3rd party library?]

From: NN Ott <nonot100_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 12:36:58 -0500

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>
> >> To recap, as Les put it:
> >>
> >> I think the idea is that he'd like to see the development history of
> both the vendor and local changes as a continuous set of changes as you
> would if they were in the same repository with log and diff working across
> any points in time or branch versions. It seems like a reasonable thing to
> want, but I don't think it is possible with subversion.
> >
> >
>
> I don't think the request can be met by Subversion. Subversion is a
> centralized version control system; the request is met by not using a
> centralized version control system, but instead using a distributed version
> control system.
>
>
>

With the new merge tracking capability being added, I would think this could
be on the horizon as well. A full fledged distributed system hardly is
needed or even what I am looking for.

Has such a feature request already been logged?
Received on 2011-01-11 18:37:37 CET

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