Re: [Monotone-devel] Master Thesis

[William Uther]

Heh,
  Off the top of my head:

  - An analysis of the relationship between different text merge  
algorithms:
     - Three way merge
     - Three way merge of annotated files (i.e. where the lines are  
identified)
     - Operational transformation theory / DARCS merge
     - Weave merge / codeville merge

  - An analysis of the right way to extend *-merge to text

  - Design a bunch of different UIs for distributed version control  
and compare them on both novice users, advanced distributed version  
control system users, and advanced non-distributed version control  
system users

  - Most current conflict detection systems look for conflicts some  
number (0,1 are most common) of lines away from the changes.  You  
could make this language dependent and see what happens...  Check  
whether this is actually original, for example I know there is work  
on XML merging.

That's what immediately springs to mind.

Cheers,

Will       :-}

On 17/04/2007, at 11:15 PM, Ingo Maindorfer wrote:

> Hello,
>
> some time ago I programmed with Thomas something for Guitone but my  
> job didn't left time over for that coding. Now I'm studing  
> "Advanced Computer Science" and looking for a topic for my master  
> Thesis.
> I think there is something left over in context of monotone with  
> scientific claim ;)
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Ingo
>
>
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