Re: svn diff output

Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>:
> On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 01:13, Rob Weir wrote:
> > Eric, how do you plan to implement a distributed version control without
> > file-ids[0]? Or do you think every repository should have all it's
> > history, ala BK?
>
> > [0]: this was more or less the point of the discussions on the changeset
> > list last year.
>
> Yeah, and I expect we'll hit the same dead end; we're not currently
> prepared to reconceptualize Subversion in arch terms in order to have
> arch-style distributed version control.

Sorry, I missed the earlier messages in this thread because of the
subject. I gather the "Eric" that question is addressed to is me.

The answer is yes, I think every repository should have all its
history, ala BK. I think file-IDs in the arch sense are a mistake.
Rather, I am imagining a system in which the basic primitives
are diff and merge *on change histories* rather than on working
copy files.

(The conceptual resemblance to BK is not an accident; I had some influence on
Larry McVoy's thinking back in 1998.)

-- 
		Eric S. Raymond
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