<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Chris Muller <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:asqueaker@gmail.com" target="_blank">asqueaker@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Ok, thanks for considering it.<br>
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Eliot, I already need to make a patch for fixing non-FileBased<br>
repositories so rather than collide with two versions I can go ahead<br>
and remove the preference.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>OK, great.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I'll update the comment in MCVersionName as well... might need help on<br>
that but I'll tap on Berts shoulder if I do..<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>thanks, and apologies for all this grief, but I think it's better this way round...</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Bert Freudenberg <<a href="mailto:bert@freudenbergs.de">bert@freudenbergs.de</a>> wrote:<br>
> On 09.08.2012, at 19:53, Chris Muller wrote:<br>
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>> Before you spend time -- what think you (and Bert) of the suggestion<br>
>> to have branches simply be in their own repository (its own directory<br>
>> of the name of the branch)? I know it's not how you do it today, but<br>
>> please just imagine it in terms of the UI -- would it work? Ok, there<br>
>> might be issues diffing versions *between* branches -- is that a<br>
>> frequent requirement? Actually, they might both be in your<br>
>> package-cache so may be could be diff'd there?<br>
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> It's always interesting to come up with alternatives. But I have given it a couple minutes of thought and come to the conclusion that no, branches cannot be meaningfully emulated by having multiple repositories. Encoding the branch in the version name is simple and works well.<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>best,<div>Eliot</div><br>