Jack Repenning wrote:
>>From: Branko Cibej [mailto:brane@xbc.nu]
>>
>>If the file didn't change, you don't have to record any merge
>>history.
>>
>>
>
>I think I disagree. It might be that you performed the merge of the
>indicated revisions (of the whole repo), but rejected the changes to a
>particular file. The fact that you rejected those changes is
>significant. It needs to be remembered just as surely as the cases
>where you accept the changes, or the cases where you accept them with
>tweaks. To fail to remember any of these decisions produces the same
>result: the next time you merge, the file differences are taken to be
>uncoordinated changes instead of conscious decisions. At best, the tool
>bothers the human about the choice once more; possibly it undoes the
>choice.
>
As Sander and I said elsewuere, there is certainly a use case for
recording no-op merges. But doing so is not necessary to the merge
algorithm, and therefore shouldn't be required by default.
>At least, I think so. But this is the sort of question I'm having
>trouble walking through the proposal, for lack of clarity on some of the
>basics. Which is why your second response catches my eye:
>
>
>
>>You can [record the merge on an unchanged file], of course,
>>and it doesn't hurt, but it's not necessary to the proposed algorithm.
>>
>>
>
>So, you're saying that it *is* possible to record a new value of a
>property against an unchanged version of a file?
>
>
Of course it's possible; I never said otherwise. A propchange is a
change, after all, and can be committed even if the contents didn't change.
--
Brane Čibej <brane_at_xbc.nu> http://www.xbc.nu/brane/
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Received on Sun Apr 13 02:28:51 2003