On 3/16/06, Eric Kow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe it's not as bad as we think. > > On 3/17/06, Olivier Thauvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - date ? which date ? last patch ? patch have no order, meaning you can > > apply > > patch 1 and 3 to a repos while you have 1 2 3 in your home. > > We could pick a reasonably sane convention. > > In the sense that patches can be commuted, it is true that they have no > order. But in your repository, they do have some linear order, and > maybe we can exploit that. Can't we just use the latest patch (in your > copy of the repository) that affects the given file?
I don't think that would be very useful. Perhaps, maybe, the latest date of any patch affecting a file (regardless of commutation) might be more useful, but I'm not sure any date would be all that useful. > > - Author ? which one ? Author are set by patch, and again, last patch have > > is > > no sense. > > We could do the same as above. I agree with Olivier that any such scheme wouldn't be very useful, particularly if a project accepts outside fix patches. Not very representative. A better approach migh be an "author list" and have it grab all of the authors that have touched a file (and while you are at it you could rank them by number of patches and relative patch sizes...). Of course, the above two options might be a little ridiculous in terms of performance, particularly for files with lots of modifications... > I'm not so sure. It's nice to have at a glance. For example, for my > webpage, I like knowing when was the last time I modified something, > and it doesn't really matter to me that it's completely accurate. I'd > like to think of it not so much as a lie, but as an approximation :-) The obvious thing to point out here is that you always have your Operating System's "touch" date. -- --Max Battcher-- http://www.worldmaker.net/ All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. --Samuel Butler _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.abridgegame.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
