Re: VCS comparison table
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Aaron Bentley <aaron.bentley@utoronto.ca>
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- Oct 20, 2006, 04:05 UTC
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- <72877ab10610192014o3a7f66c6v79f94f48615e08f4@mail.gmail.com>
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Tim Webster wrote:
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> On 10/19/06, Aaron Bentley <aaron.bentley@utoronto.ca> wrote: >> I believe SVN supports recording arbitrary file properties, so it's just >> a matter of applying those properties to the tree. > > yes svn has arbitrary properties which can be manipulated. > They are not really intended for permissions, ownership, and acl. > To use the svn properties for this requires adding scm tools.
Agreed. I think it's okay to require extra work to set the scm up to handle configurations.
> Also svn does not allow files in the same directory to live in > multiple repos
It would surprise me if many SCMs that support atomic commit also support intermixing files from multiple repos in the same directory.
>> You mean multiple merge sources? > > yes, Multiple merge sources is handy for collaborative document editing
That's something I'd like for software development, too.
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