> From: John Goerzen [mailto:jgoerzen@complete.org]
> Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 10:11 PM
[...]
> I'm also saying "I *think* it could do this fairly trivially."
It's a hairy issue. Far from trivial.
>> I'm saying "it doesn't do this." I think you agree with that
>> ... that's what got you started!
>
> Indeed.
>
>> If the question is "why doesn't it do this?" then the answer is
>> "because it was not a design goal." Put another way, SVN is trying to
>> replace CVS, not Bitkeeper.
>
> I think that's a cop-out. To me, if merging destroys custom changes
> that should not be, with no warning, that is a bug.
To put Jacks words into other terms: at this point we have no one looking
into the fancy merging features. These are all post 1.0. Unless the
resources come along (read: volunteers) that work on merging, this isn't
going to happen anytime soon, certainly not pre 1.0.
Sander
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Received on Fri Aug 22 23:31:35 2003