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Re: design/impl question (was Re: Why are branches real directories?!?!?!)

From: Tom Lord <lord_at_emf.net>
Date: 2003-04-02 20:56:59 CEST

Sorry to follow up to myself but just a couple quick amplifications:

      With that repository layout, it's a small-matter-of-scripting to
      (a) build a bidirectional gateway between svn and arch (which
      means the ability to exchange changes between distributed
      repositories in controlled ways);

Arch already supports WebDAV transport for it's core data. A gateway
such as this would mostly mean being able to fetch the changesets and
log messages associated with a particular "patch-N". If those files
are in the svn repository, that's utterly trivial -- if they aren't,
it's a matter of either batch-computing and memoizing them, or
computing them on command with caching. In any of the three
scenarios, this is a small amount of scripting, with most of the
"magic" taking place client-side in the form of layered-over-svn-cli
interface tools that understand the naming conventions.

        While "patch-N" isn't final, users can edit it in the usual
        svn manner. So, instead of a single user creating "patch-N"
        -- the new thing here is that you could have a team working on
        "patch-N" in the CVS style.

(Just trying to create a big rosetta stone:) the project management
style I'm thinking of there uses the "patch-N" labels as a kind of
"mini-milestone" -- those milestone markers serving to define the
units of "logical changesets" -- for review and exchange.

-t

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