On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 07:04:42AM +0200, Branko Čibej wrote: > On 05.04.2010 17:06, Stefan Sperling wrote: > > An idea we're playing with to mitigate this problem is having designated > > properties in the svn: namespace which allow users to tell svn what their > > branching/merging strategy is. > > (Thereby making things even more flexible, complex, and error-prone.) > In the light of previous discussions
I'd like to read them. Can you provide pointers? > this is a less than optimal way of > making branching and merging easier for users. This is another feature > that would probably only be used by perhaps 1% of all users ... Do you mean "used" or "configured" (as in setting the props)? > whilst > most people just want to say, "create a branch" and "merge from that > branch" and be done with it. Yes, they do. But how else would you make it easier to use before going 2.0 (in the "2.0" sense of writing a new centralised SCM from scratch)? The flexibility^Wcomplexity is there now, and we have set for ourselves the goal to continue supporting it (for better or worse). Stefan
