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On Sep 27, 2004, at 2:56 PM, William Nagel wrote:
> On Sep 27, 2004, at 3:44 PM, Tom Mornini wrote:
>
>> Others would say that keeping the feature set minimalist, and
>> not cluttering it with useful, though technically arbitrary
>> 'fixes' (which some may classify as crutches for some people's
>> inability or unwillingness to adopt to a new conceptual model)
>> may, over time, destroy both the technical and conceptual
>> cleanliness of an inherently more powerful model.
>>
>> I believe what would, in fact, be most useful and most clean,
>> would be mnemonic name both ADDRESS and REVISION. This could
>> perhaps be very similar to svn:externals, with the inclusion
>> of revision number. svn:internal anyone?
>
> Out of curiosity, does this provide any functionality that isn't
> provided by using copies and 'svn switch'. I agree that it might be
> conceptually easier for some users (personally, I find it more
> complicated), but like the other "technically arbitrary fixes", I
> don't think this actually adds anything functionally to Subversion.
Sure. It provides (in my own little world where everything is happy and
simple) to have a node who's contents are addressable via an arbitrary
mnemonic that specifies both address and revision. It would allow for
tags that aren't possible branch points, and give the
ability to name branches mnemonically (without a revision) so that a
user only needs to remember a single thing, the mnemonic itself.
No new functionality (conceptually), just mnemonically addressable in a
way that doesn't require hook scripts.
Personally, I think all the people asking for tags are nuts. :-) (this
is a joke) But some of the nuts are making some sense, and
perhaps some middle ground should be explored.
One this is clear: A lot of people have issues with the way things
stand currently.
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- -- Tom Mornini
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