2009/4/12 Stéfan van der Walt <ste...@sun.ac.za>: > I underestimated the > value of this type of manipulation, and of having a clearly structured > and easily traversable history.
I read that Bram Cohen of Codeville / "patience diff" fame doesn't agree with me, so I'll give his opinion too: """ Don't bother with a pretty history. The history of a branch is hardly ever looked at. Making it look pretty for the historians is just a waste of time. The beauty of 3-way merge is that you can always clean stuff up later and never worry about the past mess ever again. In particular, don't go to great lengths to make sure that there's a coherent local image of the entire repository exactly as it appeared on your local machine after every new feature. There are very rare projects which maintain a level of reliability and testing which warrant such behavior, and yours isn't one of them. """ http://bramcohen.livejournal.com/52148.html I look at the SciPy history a lot, so I'm not convinced, but there it is. Cheers Stéfan _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
