From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Aaron Bentley Subject: Re: VCS comparison table Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 00:05:35 -0400 Message-ID: <45384B0F.4040901@utoronto.ca> References: <9e4733910610140807p633f5660q49dd2d2111c9f5fe@mail.gmail.com> <45357CC3.4040507@utoronto.ca> <4536EC93.9050305@utoronto.ca> <845b6e870610190002u420118b8ud634bb9594572c48@mail.gmail.com> <46d6db660610190149x32442596we4112cdd044185a@mail.gmail.com> <45373E27.3050209@op5.se> <72877ab10610190757u3d2b4df0o204c6ffd73af69b4@mail.gmail.com> <45379A02.1010105@utoronto.ca> <72877ab10610192014o3a7f66c6v79f94f48615e08f4@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Christian MICHON , Andreas Ericsson , bazaar-ng@lists.canonical.com, git@vger.kernel.org, Matthieu Moy X-From: bazaar-ng-bounces@lists.canonical.com Fri Oct 20 06:06:16 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvbg-bazaar-ng@m.gmane.org Received: from esperanza.ubuntu.com ([82.211.81.173]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gale6-0004sx-2h for gcvbg-bazaar-ng@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 06:06:10 +0200 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=esperanza.ubuntu.com) by esperanza.ubuntu.com with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Galdj-0006xG-Aa; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 05:05:47 +0100 Received: from server4.panoramicfeedback.com ([66.216.124.41]) by esperanza.ubuntu.com with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Galdh-0006x4-3K for bazaar-ng@lists.canonical.com; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 05:05:45 +0100 Received: from server4.panoramicfeedback.com ([66.216.124.41] helo=[127.0.0.1]) by server4.panoramicfeedback.com with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1GaldZ-0000Ra-00; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 00:05:38 -0400 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20060922) To: Tim Webster In-Reply-To: <72877ab10610192014o3a7f66c6v79f94f48615e08f4@mail.gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 X-Panometrics-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-BeenThere: bazaar-ng@lists.canonical.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.8 Precedence: list List-Id: bazaar-ng discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: bazaar-ng-bounces@lists.canonical.com Errors-To: bazaar-ng-bounces@lists.canonical.com Archived-At: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Tim Webster wrote: > On 10/19/06, Aaron Bentley 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. Aaron -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFOEsO0F+nu1YWqI0RAo+6AJ9lzF0+O1I8rgkyCOdhsir1gjo0NQCfXEVV EIsDmS+eR/7cHKQfmnPJRA4= =g5jk -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----