Support large repositories!
Support large repositories!
Posted Apr 4, 2010 17:15 UTC (Sun) by RCL (guest, #63264)In reply to: Support large repositories! by tialaramex
Parent article: A proposed Subversion vision and roadmap
(binary or textual, doesn't matter) - I'm not talking about images, but
(usually stored in proprietary and/or ad hoc formats because of efficiency
requirements) animations, geometry etc
What you are proposing is a nice idea, but it would took an enormous
amount of work to be generally applicable (merge of two skinned characters
with different number of bones, anyone?) and still will be error-prone.
Moreover, merging between two different data sets is not solely a
technical problem, it requires artistic eye because even correctly merged
result of two great-looking changes may still look like shit.
It's so much easier to just lock the files, really!
Posted Apr 5, 2010 3:52 UTC (Mon)
by martinfick (subscriber, #4455)
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This can very well be true for code also...doesn't meant that a merge tool
Posted Apr 5, 2010 9:28 UTC (Mon)
by dlang (guest, #313)
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Support large repositories!
technical problem, it requires artistic eye because even correctly merged
result of two great-looking changes may still look like shit."
to help the process isn't/wouldn't be useful. But, naturally the right way
to support this would be to have your VCS support multiple merge tools via a
plugin mechanism.
Support large repositories!