[RFC] Workingstyle of different VCS systems

[Matthew Woehlke]

Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> On 12.04.07 11:49:39, Kuba Ober wrote:
>> On Tuesday 10 April 2007, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
>>> On 10.04.07 06:24:31, Kuba Ober wrote:
>>>> On Thursday 05 April 2007, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
>>> Uhm, not its not. This should only show a listing of the file + the name
>>> of the author of each line in front of the line. Nothing more.
>> 3. If you need such a detailed history, it'd need to be something that has to 
>> be set up in a project-specific way, e.g. in my projects I don't have it even 
>> set up simply because I never needed that feature.
> 
> Aha, so aegis doesn't have a history of what part of a file was changed
> by whom. Does it know who changed a file last time? I guess annotate
> should be  an optional function.

Yes it should be optional, because (as I noted previously) our version 
of p4d - which, I admit, is ancient and way overdue for an upgrade that 
isn't going to happen :-( - does not support it either. At any rate I 
don't think scripts can rely on it. It would be awesome if it could be 
added at runtime (depending on the p4d version) but as long as it can 
fail with an error message, that's fine with me.

> As for the other comments from you: I don't have anything to add,
> lock/unlock will probably part of a ILockableSCM, I think I will leave
> out cleanup completely.

Agreed, cleanup seems to be highly back-end-dependent.

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Matthew
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