Re: BitBucket: GPL-ed KitBeeper clone

Chuck Ebbert
2003-04-08T17:43:13Z

>>
>> >> Have you looked at Stellation at all? I know the
>> >> code itself is Java but they have some neat ideas about
>> >> being able to take 'slices' across the repository and
>> >> treat the slice as a single file for things like revision
>> >> tracking.
>> >
>> > Except that those are ideas as far as I can tell, not actual code.
>>
>> Last I saw they had a prototype that worked better than they expected.
>
> Which you've installed and tried, right?

Heh. The whole Eclipse/CDT/Stellation assemblage takes so much work
just to get off the ground it's not even funny, not to mention their
directions for putting Stellation on Oracle are curiously empty.

> I just poked through their
> website and I can't find anywhere in the code or docs where it says
> they have the 'slices' idea implemented. They certainly talk about
> it a lot.

Did you look in the changelog?

>> 1. Keep the csets separate but link them together. Let the developer
>> tell the system whether one is an enhancement or a bugfix to the base.
>
> BK already does this.

Can I somehow 'collapse' the csets together when browsing the repository?
A nice example might be the recent ethernet padding fix, where there ended
up being a whole set of separate patches. By looking through the
comments I can piece together a complete patch, but it's painful.

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Chuck
I am not a number!