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Re: svn commit: r30774 - trunk/notes

From: Branko Čibej <brane_at_xbc.nu>
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:21:42 +0200

David Glasser wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 12:17 PM, <brane_at_tigris.org> wrote:
>
>> Modified: trunk/notes/wc-ng-design
>> URL: http://svn.collab.net/viewvc/svn/trunk/notes/wc-ng-design?pathrev=30774&r1=30773&r2=30774
>> ==============================================================================
>> --- trunk/notes/wc-ng-design Thu Apr 24 12:07:54 2008 (r30773)
>> +++ trunk/notes/wc-ng-design Thu Apr 24 12:17:08 2008 (r30774)
>> @@ -387,6 +387,8 @@ in this document, or elsewhere in the su
>> * Modularization
>> * Agree on a UI to pull in other parts of the same repository
>> (NOT svn:externals) [relates to issue #1167]
>> +#####XBC I submit this is a server-side feature that the client
>> + (i.e. the WC library) should not know about.
>>
>
> Why?
>
> In my mind, it's exactly the opposite. (Hell, SVK has a project-spec
> feature *today* which essentially does this entirely client-side.)
>
> This feature is about "letting the user dictate what their working
> copy looks like" (where one possible choice is "base it on a shared
> and versioned set of settings"). That's about as client-side as you
> can get.
>

Because then every client that wants to be comparable to others has to
implement that. Even those that don't or can't use the working copy
library; such as, for example, the dav-autocommit "client". Doing this
on the server side (with a kind of hardlink equivalent) would be
completely transparent to all clients.

Sure, that would change the server-side revision from a tree to a DAG;
but no-one except the server would notice that.

-- Brane

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