And frankly, having worked with a version control system that works at the method level (IBM VisualAge), I prefer simply
embedding the intelligence into the merging process - eclipse's CVS merge tools are a good example of this.
Embedding too much "intelligence" into the version control system results in an inflexible and fragile system.
Stellation is a good example of putting the intelligence into the wrong place - it undoubtedly represents a lot of work,
but you have to buy into a whole development style in order to use it.
Rather do one thing (version files) and do it well. This provides a well understood mental model for developers to work
with.
Gerco Ballintijn wrote:
> Jani Averbach wrote:
>
>> On 2005-02-25 18:41+0100, Freek wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> Code ist more than a simple textual representation of the things you
>>> want to do. How about going one point further and using a
>>> programming language aware(0) change detection in a source control
>>> system.
>>>
>>
>> http://www.eclipse.org/stellation/
>>
>> Motivation and Goals:
>>
>> Fine granularity and Dynamic Program Organization. Stellation CM
>> will manage and version small artifacts, such as method
>> declarations, rather than entire source files. Fine granularity
>> makes it possible for programmers to coordinate their work with
>> greater precision, and to understand the impact of changes more
>> easily.
>>
>> As in general I found this as an interesting idea, but there are more
>> important things to do, as locking (almost there!), merge tracking,
>> replication (at least read only slaves), new WC library, SQL backend,
>> etc.
>>
>
> See also the following paper:
>
> @Article{MensT:2002may,
> author = "Tom Mens",
> title = "A State-of-the-Art Survey on Software Merging",
> journal = "IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering",
> volume = 28,
> number = 5,
> pages = "449--462",
> month = may,
> year = 2002
> }
>
> Gerco.
>
>
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