John Peacock <jpeacock@rowman.com>:
> Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> >With these and a very little state information ("I'm a daughter
> >repostory of X, forked at commit T"), we could start doing
> >Bitkeeper-like repository sync operations. That's the possibility
> >that interests me -- of supporting hierarchies of repositories in
> >which action diffs are used to support shipping changes up towards the
> >root.
>
> Take a look at CLKao's work with SVK:
>
> http://svk.elixus.org
>
> which is a tool built on top of Subversion that among other things supports
> repository mirrors (via VCP to CVS and P4 even). It doesn't really do
> hierachies of repositories, but it does support mirroring a remote
> repository and maintaining a local development stream which can ultimately
> be used to commit to the parent repository. He has also implemented smart
> merging (and cherry pick merges), so no more need to keep track of when the
> last merge was applied to a branch.
I have looked at svk a bit. There are some interesting ideas there, but
the entirety feels to me like something of a kluge.
--
Eric S. Raymond
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Received on Thu Sep 16 13:57:09 2004