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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] What is arch? (Alternative answer)
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Pierce T . Wetter III |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] What is arch? (Alternative answer) |
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Tue, 24 Feb 2004 10:29:33 -0700 |
On Feb 24, 2004, at 10:18 AM, Robert Anderson wrote:
Pierce T. Wetter III wrote:
This is less true in arch, because arch assumes a model much closer
to a spiderweb then a tree.
Don't like it at all. "Yuck. I don't need a spiderweb. That's messy
and ugly." I'm also not sure that there's anything true about it.
Do you have an alternative metaphor? It's true its not strictly a
spiderweb (since it can only merge from common ancestors), but its much
less a tree...
I suppose that arch has a "detour" model instead of a "tree model", in
that it assumes that while code may wander off for a bit, it will
eventually come back. Most revision systems don't assume that, so their
merging sucks.
Pierce
P.S.
I _like_ spiderwebs. They look cool. :-) YMMV.
- [Gnu-arch-users] What is arch? (Alternative answer), Pierce T . Wetter III, 2004/02/24
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] What is arch? (Alternative answer), Robert Anderson, 2004/02/24
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] What is arch? (Alternative answer),
Pierce T . Wetter III <=
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] What is arch? (Alternative answer), Robert Anderson, 2004/02/24
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] What is arch? (Alternative answer), Pierce T . Wetter III, 2004/02/24
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] What is arch? (Alternative answer), Robert Anderson, 2004/02/25
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] What is arch? (Alternative answer), Pierce T . Wetter III, 2004/02/25
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] What is arch? (Alternative answer), Charles Duffy, 2004/02/25
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] What is arch? (Alternative answer), Jody Belka, 2004/02/24
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] What is arch? (Alternative answer), Aaron Bentley, 2004/02/24