--- Tom Lord <lord@regexps.com> wrote:
> Really -- I assumed you were more familiar with
> arch.
I assumed you knew this was a *Subversion* mailing
list.
> Ok then, here's a whirlwind tour of the abstract
> solution:
>
>
> 1) There's a global, territorial, referentially
> transparent namespace
> for project trees.
>
>
> 2) There's a standard for describing any project
> tree in terms of a
> source to source transformation derived from the
> definitions of
> earlier revisions.
>
> In the simplest case, the "source to source"
> transformation is
> a patch set against a single base revision, but
> arbitrarilly more
> diverse/complicated transformations are
> potentially valuable (e.g.,
> a way to say that revision B is derived from its
> base revision by
> renaming a particular identifier).
>
> Because of this standard, you can regard globally
> named revisions
> in terms of their heritage: a base revision plus
> a series of
> source->source transforms, resulting in the named
> revision.
>
>
> 3) There's a standard for recording, in each project
> tree, the
> change-set heritage of that project tree.
>
> This is used for intelligent merging and auditing
> generally.
>
>
> 4) There's an open-ended set of protocols for
> accessing and
> propogating the database of named revisions.
>
> Any protocol that can be disguised as a small
> subset of FTP
> can be made a transport mechanism for distributed
> change set
> mgt.
>
>
> 4) There's an open-ended collection of tools for
> merging sets of
> changes intelligently (e.g., avoiding redudant
> application of
> non-idempotent transformations).
>
> `star-merge' is a quintesential example.
Can you give examples of the above, please?
Thanks,
Noel
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Received on Tue Oct 15 14:15:53 2002