On Monday 31 March 2003 07:26 am, jennyw wrote:

> If there was an option to filed-out in a directory structure
> instead of a single file, such as:
>
> category/classname/classdef
> category/classname/methodcategory/method1
> category/classname/methodcategory/method2
> etc.
>
> And filed-in in the same manner, wouldn't source control systems be
> able to handle that better?  I know this probably wouldn't work
> well in CVS (since it doesn't support renames), but with Subversion
> (successor to CVS), BitKeeper, or a number of more recent CMS
> systems, it might work better.  Or not?
>

This is/was done by at least one such system (I forget the name, 
though).

DVS does things very simply: it alphabetizes the names of the methods 
on output. So it diffs pretty well.

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