On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 4:35 PM, zpcspm <[email protected]> wrote: > On May 8, 11:58 pm, "Edward K. Ream" <[email protected]> wrote:
> When I started using leo for coding and was storing the outline in > version control, I was taking leo sentinels in diffs as "garbage". > This might sound like blasphemy, but this is how I was feeling about > sentinels. This is indeed the problem with sentinels. No matter how well an editor (Leo or not) hides sentinels, the sentinels will cause problems in sccs diffs. I attempted to make a virtue out of necessity by claiming that a diff that takes into account sentinels might conceivably do a better job at diffing than a raw-text-based diff, but for that to be the case one has to override the typical work flow to use the Leonine diff instead. This is the reason the whole idea is a difficult sell. > I wouldn't risk to generalize, but I think personally for me such > attitude is a kind of psychological barrier. Oh well, at least it was. > Nowadays I tend to treat sentinels as a trade-off. They make the diffs > a bit uglier, they make the codebase a bit bigger, but they add > another dimension, by providing a structure, a hierarchy which flat > text files lack. I think it is a fair trade-off. More than that - it's > a profitable trade-off. This is exactly my opinion. Alas, it can not be imposed on others :-) > If flat text files can be seen as middle-age "scrolls", sentinels are > something that transform them into "books". Hilarious video. Thanks for linking to it. Edward ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Edward K. Ream email: [email protected] Leo: http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/front.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor?hl=en.
