On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 03:37:11PM -0700, K. Richard Pixley wrote: > Nathaniel Smith wrote: > > If you collapse all of the directories into an archive resembling a > normalized "ls -iR" [...] > > > Sure, you can write down a textual representation of this information. > manifests and change_set's more or less are such a representation. > > The problem isn't that it's impossible, it's that it doesn't actually > help solve any of the problems we need to solve, as far as I can tell. > > Ok. Such as?
Well... umm... merging is kinda The Problem :-). A representation like that could be used as a UI to describe conflicts to the user and let them resolve them, but 1) it's probably not the best UI for that, and 2) by the time you start worrying about conflict presentation UI, you've already done the hard parts. -- "Of course, the entire effort is to put oneself Outside the ordinary range Of what are called statistics." -- Stephan Spender _______________________________________________ Monotone-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monotone-devel
