From: Devin Mullins <twifkak@...>
Date: 2005-06-29T14:22:43+09:00
Subject: Re: [Project Idea] RCM - A Ruby Configuration Management System

Zed A. Shaw wrote:

>>Doesn't seem, to me, to obviate the need (well, desire) to make mv a 
>>special operation in your RCS. For example:
>>1)It would be nice to view the entire history of a file in one view, but 
>>more importantly,
>>2)How do you solve merging? This is obviously a corner case, but say:
>>- Dijon refactors a couple of the methods in the Person class into a 
>>couple of smaller methods sharing one private method.
>>- Hellman renames the Person class to User (and renames the file to 
>>user.rb), and modifies all the client code.
>>    
>>
>Ah yes, the "industrial autism" corner case.  Heaven forbid developers
>should actually have to talk to each other. Oh no, it's the RCS system's
>job to figure out what the developers "mean" (even though computers are
>really, really bad at meaning).
>
><rant/>
>  
>
LOL. Okay.

And to correct you a little bit, a system like CVS/SVN doesn't presume 
to be able to suss out what the developers mean - it asks.

Also, 'twould be nice to view the entire in one view, but yeah, it would 
require a system you don't want - one that requires manual intervention 
for things like renames. That, and it still wouldn't help the case where 
a class gets split in two, in which case your thing works much better.

So, point taken.

In any case, you sound like you need a hug.

Devin