Branko Čibej <brane_at_xbc.nu> writes:
> kmradke_at_rockwellcollins.com wrote:
>> On a side note, it has always bothered me that changing revision
>> properties leaves no audit history trace... Does this bother
>> anyone else?
>
> Yes. :)
No :-).
Or at least, it doesn't bother me as much as it bothers some people,
though I'd be happy to see audit trails / rewindability for log
messages.
There's a myth going around that our unaudited log messages mean
Subversion doesn't have the "time safe" property. But Subversion is
time-safe. The question with time safety is always "What things are in
scope and what things are out of scope?"
You could implement a repository just like Subversion's, except without
log messages, and instead people could just stick post-it notes to
revisions. Sometimes they might remove a post-it note and replace it
with a new one. We couldn't prevent that -- after all, a revision is a
label, and if people want to write other documents that happen to
*refer* to those labels, well... It's like trying to stop someone from
linking to you on the Web: a URL is just a string other people may use
in their own documents.
All we've done with log messages and other revprops is make a very
convenient way to attach post-it notes to our revisions.
I'm answering a question other than the one you asked, of course. It
might be useful if we started versioning those post-it notes, and I'm
definitely for it. But I do want to dispel the myth that it's related
to time safety (which you didn't bring up), and this seemed as good a
place as any.
-Karl
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