Squeak, source control, subversion, versioning, monticello, all that good stuff.

Simon Kirk Simon.Kirk at pinesoft.co.uk
Mon Jan 30 13:31:01 UTC 2006


Avi Bryant wrote:

>
> On Jan 27, 2006, at 6:59 PM, Diego Fernandez wrote:
>
> <snip lots of valid criticism>
>
>> 5. I really miss the three way diff :) (we have done an special  
>> version that shows with colors those methods that can be merged  
>> without conflicts: the ancestor and the current version are the same)
>
>
> This confuses me, because Monticello is almost entirely built around  
> being able to do a three way diff - I can't imagine a process where  
> multiple people were using Monticello and *not* constantly doing  
> three way diffs, including good conflict detection (more accurate  
> than is possible with ENVY, which doesn't model branches very well).   
> So - do you use the Merge button?  What do you miss from it?
>
> Avi

Just to throw in my $0.02, there's only one mention of the Merge button 
in the MC documentation (that I've found anyway) under the section 
'Getting Started' 
<http://www.wiresong.ca/Monticello/UserManual/GettingStarted/>, and that 
itself says just effectively "click merge" rather than describing what 
happens. It also (scarily imo) says it only merges non-conflicting 
changes, but doesn't mention how (if?) conflicts are dealt with. Perhaps 
that's why people perception of MC's merge support isn't great from the 
start? This isn't a comment on MC's *actual* merge capability, more its 
*perceived* capability :)
S



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