Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: [HACKERS] SCMS question

[Hugo Cornelis]

On 2/22/07, William Uther <address@hidden> wrote:
> The problem is in detecting if a file has changed.  If you're using
> compressed keywords in the database then manual expansion of those
> keywords causes monotone to think the file has changed.  If you're
> not using compressed keywords in the database then you can do some

If there would be a hook that gets called before the SHAs get computed
on the workspace, that hook could remove the keyword expansions (in a
temporary file, obviously).  Doesn't that solve the problem ?  Or is
there also a concern of performance for large workspaces ?

> Given monotone's unwieldy revision ids, Revision is possibly not so
> useful anyway, and the Log keyword was always a terrible idea :).

Agree.

> All you really need to do is redefine Id from <FileName, Revision,
> Date, Author> to <FileName, Branch, Date, Author> and you'd could get
> most functionality with manual expansion.

In general, having user definable keywords supported like in prcs is
really useful.  That is the reason that I wrote my own keyword
expander.


Hugo


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