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RE: merge mode for XML


From: Paul Sander
Subject: RE: merge mode for XML
Date: Sat, 4 May 2002 11:14:23 -0700

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>[ On Friday, May 3, 2002 at 14:49:11 (-0500), Sean Hager wrote: ]
>> Subject: RE: merge mode for XML
>>
>> 
>> 
>> > No.  Not on extension, but based on *regular expressions*, or at least
>> > shell-style   pattern  matching   expressions.   Extensions   are  too
>> > simplistic.  (c.f. CVSROOT/cvswrappers,  CVSROOT/cvsignore)
>> 
>> Extensions would work fine, pattern matching is overkill.

>Neither is suitable or sufficient.

>The actual type must be explicitly recorded in every delta, or at least
>the initial delta and every delta following a "dead" delta.

'Course, if CVS used a single RCS file for the entire lifetime of a
single file, then the admin newphrase works fine.  But that's another
argument left for the past...

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