Re: CVS update: subversion/subversion/libsvn_fs dag.h

On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 09:23:27AM -0600, Karl Fogel wrote:
> Jim Blandy <jimb@zwingli.cygnus.com> writes:
> > I'd been expecting to put off dealing with copy nodes until we've got
> > the simpler filesystem structure working. I don't see that it's
> > critical to add them now, and it complicates Karl's work on the
> > dag-based editor.
> >
> > Karl, if we introduce copy nodes, they will be visible through the dag
> > interface, so your editor will need to deal with them.
>
> I think you're right, that's the way to go. *Can* deal with copy
> nodes if we put them in now, but would prefer not to.
>
> Adding them later will not result in the undoing of any significant
> work, so it would be best to get the basics working and then add the
> non-basic stuff. (I'm making assumptions about what is "basic" and
> what's not, but I think we all agree that a large subset of repository
> functionality can happen without copy nodes.)

Not to mention the fact that I won't be marshalling copies across the wire
for Milestone 2.

    add, remove, change

Copy isn't in that list :-)

[ yah, yah... ra_local might, but it's the black sheep... ]

Cheers,
-g

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/