Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Keyword substitution?

[Bruce Stephens]

Hendrik Boom <address@hidden> writes:

> On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 10:10:14AM +0100, Bruce Stephens wrote:

[...]

>> (You aren't alone.  At work we have occasion to do that kind of thing.
>> Most of our code is binary, but there's a fair amount of scripting,
>> and occasionally we've suggested customers patch the scripts and maybe
>> just "oh, try this one" from a later version.  I don't think we've
>> ever lost track to the extent that we need to look at the CVS
>> keywords, but I can imagine it happening.)
>
> One hack might be to take the ecternally modified file, diff it
> arainst all the revisions in the database, and see which ones
> differ the least.

Sure, and (in principle at least) one can do that regardless of how a
system is designed.  

However, I think it makes some sense to consider more direct ways of
solving the problem, even if it's decided that the right way to solve
it is never to have individual files like that, but always to keep an
MT directory with them.