Re: A modest proposal: No index or "log -g" in Subversion 1.5

On Nov 29, 2007 7:07 PM, Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman@red-bean.com> wrote:
> I'm going to have a really hard time saying to people, "Oh hey, you
> can now repeatedly merge trunk to your branch now without tracking
> revisions manually. But, um, when you merge back, you better get the
> -rX:Y argument just right." It doesn't feel like very much progress.
> I define "success" as "the user never needs to type a revnum".

Is svnmerge.py any better than this here? (I don't know.)

I also do think that the -rX:Y argument can be automatically
calculated; it just uses a different mechanism than svn:mergeinfo.

> What I'd like to understand is: how does this new sqlite-less design
> (which sounds great!) actually relate to the various solutions we've
> discussed for issue 2897? Is sqlite really required to subtract one
> patch from another patch?

I'm not positive. I still don't have a full understanding of what
sorts of queries solving Issue 2897 in the ways we are currently
proposing requires. (But I do think that whatever information is
necessary, maintaining it accurately seems to require simulating the
Subversion DAG explicitly or implicitly, which is not exactly
trivial...)

--dave

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David Glasser | glasser_at_davidglasser.net | http://www.davidglasser.net/
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