Thanks again for your advice and interest David. (plus the good work)
On Friday 03 March 2006 12.49, David Nuescheler wrote: > hi thomas, > > > I think there are use cases to keep history *and* to "forget" history. > > What would be nice is to let do both. > > agreed. and in the context of multiple workspaces both is possible. > clone() keeps the history, copy() doesn't > > looking at your use case i would really recommend to have at least two > workspaces. in my opinion your use case is exactly what workspaces > are intended to be used for. > > Even though it can be done by ourself, there is a performance issue with > > that. That said, if i am the only one who needs that, it does not worth > > the pain. > > well, your use case is certainly a frequent one. i doubt that copying > the version history is necessary to accomplish what you would like > to achieve. > > regardless, i find the topic of being able to copy a version history > is worth a discussion in the jsr-283 expert group and therefore take > all the input from this mailing list into the jsr-283 expert group. > regards, > david
