[RFC] Workingstyle of different VCS systems

[Matthew Woehlke]

Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> On 09.04.07 10:54:11, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>> This brings up a wrinkle... we need to be careful how we define a 
>> "checkout scope"... in svn it is just a path; in perforce it is a client 
>> view (i.e. a mapping consisting of several path pairs with an optional 
>> exclude flag). Tagging needs to take a "checkout scope" as input.
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean, but I suppose we can talk about that better
> once we have a few interface definitions. I'll try to create at least
> the basic one and one for repository stuff tonight.

I guess the simple explanation is that the "what part of the repo should 
I operate on" argument for checkout() and branch() needs to be some sort 
of class that is defined by the VCS plug-in, as opposed to a simple URL. 
This is because in perforce you do not check out a URL, you check out a 
client spec. Actually this is true for svn too; you don't check out a 
URL, you check out a URL /and/ a flag saying if it is recursive or not.

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Matthew
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