Re: text-base penalty: A proposed solution

Kean Johnston wrote:

>>I'd argue that the multiple ways does hamper my usage. To repeat what
>>Greg Hudson said, the more complex code is more difficult to maintain
>>
>>
>That's a nebulous statement. We don't KNOW how much it will complicate
>the code because no-one has written it yet.
>
Ah, but we do. :-)

We know what has to be done to support this model (and don't
misunderstand me -- I strongly believe Subversion should support it),
and we know the state of our working-copy management library. It's a sad
mess, and before we dare fiddle with it too much, we must sit down and
create a design for it -- something we don't really have.

So there it is. We can either add yet another hack, destabilising
libsvn_wc even further -- note that right now, there are way too many
corner cases it doesn't cover satisfactorily -- or wait for the
sobstantial reqrite that's on the way. Any help with the redesign would
be most helpful, of course.

-- 
Brane Čibej   <brane_at_xbc.nu>   http://www.xbc.nu/brane/
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