"Cameron, Steve" wrote:
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> David Thornley wrote:
>
>
> [...Regarding support for redundant ".latest" suffix for branch tags.]
> >And similarity with the main trunk. There's no great harm in synonyms.
>
> Except people have to write the code to support them, spend the effort
> to understand that code when debugging, maintain that code, test
> that code. If it doesn't add significant value, why put it in? synonyms
> like this don't add real value, IMHO
> [...]
Depends on what the code is doing. Sometimes it makes sense to make
everything orthogonal, even when it causes redundancy. The code
complexity depends on how much is put in to support the synonyms and
how much would be put in to suppress them.
Anyway, it's nice to have orthogonality when writing tools to use
CVS. It's something of a pain to have to treat the main trunk
differently from a branch. That is likely to create more extra
code than putting the synonym in would, although the code will be
a lot more distributed.
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