Julian Foad <julianfoad@btopenworld.com> writes:
> 2) I'm rapidly coming to think that it is a bad idea to add all this
> code now. In particular, adding "-rBASE" to "svn cat" without
> adding it to other commands, and without adding "-rWC" as well, is
> too much of a hack. Writing this patch has given me a good start at
> learning the Subversion code, and though it is very good compared to
> most other software I have worked on, I have of course been finding
> inconsistencies and bugs. The more I find, the more I want to fix
> them - by simplifying, unifying, refactoring - almost always by
> deleting spurious special cases, not by adding more code.
>
> I probably will finish this "cat -rBASE" patch, but part of me wants
> to resist checking it in. We'll see. - Julian
Bless you! If only this kind of wisdom was universal...
Julian, if you have the time, I'd love to see you devote your energy
towards helping us address the problems that are biting real users
every day (as approximated/supposed by the issue in near milestones
found in our issue tracker), especially now that you are familiar with
codebase.
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Received on Tue Sep 23 02:02:13 2003