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Re: Feature Ideas

From: Kumaran Santhanam <kumaran_at_tigris.org>
Date: 2003-08-23 03:21:30 CEST

> At 5:56 PM -0700 8/22/03, Kumaran Santhanam wrote:
> >- svn edit is simply 'chmod +w FILE'
> >...
> >If there is anything I'm missing, do let me know.
>
> Well, "cvs edit" sets you up to do "cvs editors", which your proposal
> seems not to do. That is, "cvs edit" makes a central note that this
> person is editing, and others can learn of this. This is, of course,
> part of the cascade into locking. Sounds like you're OK with leaving
> this part out, right? It makes it hard to document the function,
> though, and makes the product a bit quirkier and less comfortable.

Yes, the 'cvs editors' functionality is very useful. In fact,
I'd like to see Subversion go there eventually, since I found
this feature very useful on a number of SCM systems.

However, the spirit of my proposal is to make the minimum number
of changes right now, based on Greg's assessment of complexity,
in the hopes that something can make it into the tree before
v1.0, which is an as-yet-undetermined time away.

> >Again, this is
> >a feature I need right away, so I'm probably going to have to
> >make the patch, at least on a private copy.
>
> Just curious: why can't you do this with a wrapper, rather than a
> modified program? Either way, you're depending on the users to
> install your special thing-a-ma-bob.

I'd prefer to do the work only once - if the edit functionality
needs to be in SVN in some form anyway, it would be nice to get
the ball rolling now with something simple. I'm hesitant to use
a wrapper, since it's basically throw-away code (script or
otherwise) once the "real" edit functionality goes in.

Of course, this depends on the developers' consensus on this
issue: I'd love to see at least a minimal change approved to go
into the tree so that I can refer users to simply download the
latest version from the main trunk.

Kumaran

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