Concerning Re: Subversion Problem - How to sav
Karl Fogel wrote on 11 Jul 2008, 11:33, at least in part:
> I don't understand why we're arguing so hard that this feature must
> never be in Subversion.
>
> It's fine to say "It's not important enough to any current developer
> to devote time to it." That's clearly true. It's also fine to say
> "If you want to hire someone competent to see this feature all the way
> through design and coding, then patches welcome." We say this all the
> time.
>
> But I'm a little surprised that we're so vehement about insisting that
> this is not useful, when we keep hearing from users that it is useful.
> It reminds me of all the years when CVS and SVN experts would tell
> people "You don't really need locking." Then SVN added a good locking
> implementation, and lo and behold, a lot of people use it.
>
> We could make the argument that mod-time-preservation would add too
> much instability to the code. But that's a bit spurious: first, we
> haven't seen the patch, so why would we be so sure? Second, we've
> incorporated lots of other features that don't appeal to all users and
> do touch a fair amount of code (look at all the different auth
> mechanisms we support).
>
> When I think about this feature technically, it doesn't seem likely to
> add much instability. After all, if we're willing to save the modtime
> in a property (an idea which Ben has proposed and which no one seems
> to object to), then how hard would it be to use the value of that
> property to set -- on platforms that support it -- the modtime of the
> working file on checkout, update, or revert? Are we really talking
> about rocket science here?
>
> I'm not saying that anyone needs to drop what they're doing and write
> the patch. I'm certainly not planning to. There is no obligation to
> do something just because someone's asking for it.
>
> But we also don't need to harden passive inaction into active
> resistance. If some developer were to make a clean patch to do this,
> I don't think we should turn it down on the assumption that it adds
> instability. We should just evaluate it like any other feature patch,
> and incorporate it if it seems good.
>
> If there's going to be a FAQ entry here, IMHO it should something more
> along the lines of what I'm saying here, not "We've discussed this and
> decided it will never be in Subversion". There are feature proposals
> that deserve that kind of unconditional rejection, but this is not one
> of them.
>
> -Karl
Karl,
thanks a lot for these words, all of them!
Have a fine day,
Jan Hendrik
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