[Zope-CMF] Revisions & CMF

Toby Dickenson tdickenson@geminidataloggers.com
Thu, 31 May 2001 11:32:38 +0100


On Wed, 30 May 2001 11:04:49 -0400, Shane Hathaway
<shane@digicool.com> wrote:

>A lot of the ideas presented are actually more alike than it sounds at
>first.  A future version of a document is really the same as a CVS
>"branch".  No, we might not need diffs and merges, but we do need the
>concepts that are fundamental to CVS.
>
>A Zope "Version" object is also equivalent to a CVS branch.  However,
>FileStorage, the default implementation of the ZODB storage layer, is
>currently hardwired to disallow concurrent branches.  I don't know
>whether BSDDB3 storage makes the same assumption.

An observation, and Im not sure whether or not it is obvious....

You cant allow concurrent branches without some CVS-alike diffs and
merges. (unless your branches will forever remain separate)



Toby Dickenson
tdickenson@geminidataloggers.com