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    SubjectRe: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin
    On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Horst von Brand wrote:

    > I wonder how your commercial customers develop code then. Either each
    > programmer futzes around in his/her own tree, and then creates a patch
    > (or some such) for everybody to see (then I don't see the point of
    > source control as a help to the individual developer), or everybody
    > sees all the backtracking going on everywhere (in which case the
    > repository is a mostly useless mess AFAICS).

    If the object is to minimise confusion by not showing
    back-tracked changes, why not simply allow the user
    to mark changesets with a "visibility":

    1) hidden, for stuff which shouldn't be seen by default,
    like backed out changes, etc..
    2) small, individual development steps to achieve a new
    feature
    3) normal, the normal commits
    4) major (tagged versions ?)

    This way the user can select how detailed the overview
    of the versions should be.

    Also, when viewing a changeset/version of a certain
    priority, bitkeeper could optionally "fold in" the
    hidden changesets between the last changeset and the
    one the user wants to view.

    Would this be a workable scheme ?

    (keeps the bitkeeper repository intact, can reduce
    the confusion)

    regards,

    Rik
    --
    "Linux holds advantages over the single-vendor commercial OS"
    -- Microsoft's "Competing with Linux" document

    http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/

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