Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: branching policy

[Bram Cohen]

Daniel Carosone wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 12:07:38PM -0700, Bram Cohen wrote:
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> > Branches are centralized and persistent and form a spanning tree. 
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> This sounds like an interesting idea, and I haven't really begun to
> digest yet what you're describing in detail.  As I try to do so, I
> immediately realise that we're at risk of some terminology confusion.
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*sigh* here we go again...

In this model, the history is linear, and includes the current state of 
all branches and the relationships between them. The relationships are a 
spanning tree, which itself is versioned linearly over time, along with 
everything else.

You could make a DAG history of the branches, which wouldn't be 
completely linear, but would have the property that at any given time 
two neighboring branches would have a single LCA.

I'm storing neighborhood data in files on the svn server, by the way. 
SVN switch and copy combine to make a fairly powerful back end, albeit 
an extremely raw interface.

-Bram