Re: Yet another linux filesytem: with version control

From: Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Mon Jul 23 2001 - 16:51:36 EST


On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Larry McVoy wrote:

> b) Filesystem support for SCM is really a flawed approach.

Agreed. I mean, how can you cleanly group changesets and
versions with a filesystem level "transparent" SCM ?

The goal of an SCM is to _manage_ versions and changesets,
if it doesn't do that we're back at CVS's "every file its
own versioning and to hell with manageability" ...

regards,

Rik

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