For this particular posting, sliding in text-base files and leaving
everything else untouched is called "generic takeover".
Paul Burba wrote:
> No disrespect intended to those who wanted another approach,
> but IMHO I had reasonable support for my proposal and that
> is what this patch is about.
Your proposal is about satisfying the miniscule use case that your
Eclipse-related needs comprise.
The generic takeover approach is functionality at a lower level and
therefore would leverage Subversion as a generic versioning backend
much more than what your approach does.
I also think it would be useful to more people.
I have absolutely nothing against your approach, but I do think that
it's a little sad that you didn't consider implementing the
aforementioned generic takeover functionality while you're knee deep
in code that's very related anyway.
> ***** USE CASE A: Dir obstructs a file *****
> ***** USE CASE B: File obstructs a dir *****
> ***** USE CASE C: Identical file obstructs a file *****
> ***** USE CASE D: Different file obstructs a file *****
> ***** USE CASE E: Versioned dir obstructs a dir *****
> ***** USE CASE F: Versioned dir of different URL obstructs a dir *****
> ***** USE CASE G: Out of date versioned dir obstructs a dir *****
> ***** USE CASE H: Dir obstructs a dir *****
I don't know what that is, but it's not use cases :-).
If it's "scenarios that SVN might encounter during forced checkout",
perhaps call it SCENARIO [A..H]..
Alan Barrett wrote:
> As I have asked before, please reserve the term "takeover" for the
> process (not yet implemented) of converting a non-working-copy
> directory to a working copy directory without making any other changes.
+1
Calling it "takeover" insinuates that this feature
will do something that it actually won't.
Call it "forced checkout" or something?
> The term "takeover" was not used to my knowledge in anything
> visible to a user. Paul was just saying that he was using
> that term in describing his patch, and perhaps within the
> patch comments.
It would probably be helpful if you stopped using it as a synonym
for "forced checkout" there too =)
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Received on Mon May 8 19:49:04 2006