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From: | Pierce T . Wetter III |
Subject: | Re: [Gnu-arch-users] What is arch? (Alternative answer) |
Date: | Tue, 24 Feb 2004 21:45:03 -0700 |
Do you have an alternative metaphor? It's true its not strictly a spiderweb (since it can only merge from common ancestors), but its much less a tree...I'm not sure that there's any real distinction here that's worth trumpeting about. I don't think it is "much less a tree." arch happens to be very good at merging in an N-tree branch structure, aka star topology.
I think arch is better at working the way developers actually work, as opposed to the way that its easiest to write a revision control system. So I think that's worth trumpeting.
I suppose that arch has a "detour" model instead of a "tree model", in that it assumes that while code may wander off for a bit, it will eventually come back.Nah. No such assumption. Good tools for when it does, however.
Well, arch at least realizes that detouring is a common case.
Most revision systems don't assume that, so their merging sucks.True conclusion, wrong reasons.
I dunno. Seems like svn suffers because they thought about the branching aspect instead of the merging aspect.
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