From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Switching to Subversion Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 01:49:30 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87ac2w45e0.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87y7qg2pbj.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87mz6w2odt.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <874pt2iqcc.fsf@olgas.newt.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1163487002 10621 80.91.229.2 (14 Nov 2006 06:50:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 06:50:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 14 07:49:58 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gjs7E-0004Az-Iw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 07:49:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gjs7E-0002f0-0T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 01:49:52 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gjs73-0002eQ-Bw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 01:49:41 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gjs70-0002dd-BF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 01:49:41 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gjs70-0002dY-7B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 01:49:38 -0500 Original-Received: from [209.226.175.184] (helo=tomts22-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Gjs70-00075B-7v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 01:49:38 -0500 Original-Received: from alfajor.home ([74.12.204.152]) by tomts22-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.13 201-253-122-130-113-20050324) with ESMTP id <20061114064937.ZUPD10262.tomts22-srv.bellnexxia.net@alfajor.home> for ; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 01:49:37 -0500 Original-Received: by alfajor.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 292FB1C201; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 01:49:30 -0500 (EST) Original-To: Bill Wohler In-Reply-To: <874pt2iqcc.fsf@olgas.newt.com> (Bill Wohler's message of "Mon\, 13 Nov 2006 20\:50\:43 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.90 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:62282 Archived-At: >> The first 3 are what CVS already provides. Svn only added the last point >> and forgot the penultimate (even though it's a lot more important in my >> experience). > Definitely, and that's why the Subversion team is working on it. Again: when will it be available? How many KLOCs wand man-years will be necessary to get this into Subversion, when it has been one of the early features of pretty much every other competitor? > http://subversion.tigris.org/merge-tracking/ Compare the complexity of the above design document to the simplicity of the solutions used in DaRCS and Arch (for example). It makes you cry. Stefan