[Opensim-dev] to branch or to break?

[Anders Arnholm]

On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 11:49:12AM -0400, Sean Dague wrote:

> Yes, but the problem is made better in distributed SCM by understanding
> the parent of change.
> 
> If I know that E is really a change from A instead of a change from D, I
> can do a much better job on recognizing what I was fundamentally
> changing, and have a better job resolving F & D.  

I agree, and some system like subversion ahve way less support of this
that old stable systems like clear case.

> SCM tool that actually understands how you got there, than one one that
> assumes source code is a linear thing.

Knowing what version something came from and how the branshes, files
relate is essentions to good code understanding. The support in tool
like subversion is "basic" in this. Clears case have this on file level,
but actually dont care about the branches and configurations all all
levels.


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