Re: [Monotone-devel] Future of monotone

[hendrik]

On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 09:30:24AM -0800, address@hidden wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 05:04:33PM +0100, Markus Schiltknecht wrote:
> 
> > Thomas Keller wrote:
> > >So where lacks monotone the most?

Lets make an entry in the dream-on category:

I miss the ability to merge revisions to tree-structured files while 
guaranteeing that tree structure remains properly nested.

(what kinds of tree structures?  Well, XML comes to mind because 
it's standard; indented text comes to mind because there's so 
much of it.  Things with brackets also, but maybe I'm getting 
greedy here :-)  This could be done with syntax plugins for 
various file types.  There might be other uses for such plugins)

I don't expect anyone to provide this this anytime soon, and as far as I 
know, no revision management system does this.

(but would it be useful if monotone were to be able to merge C files 
without violating statement nesting?  Or considering it a merge conflict 
if it were inevitable?)

-- hendrik