Re: Will Martin contribute to XEmacs in the future?

ms> Subversion does true atomic commits with global version ms> numbering. Does this mean that a commit (when done judiciously, as opposed to a MegaPatch) will automatically record the relationship among the various files changed in a commit? I haven't looked closely at that (that's one of your desiderata, I thought), but I've been given to understand that although commits are atomic in the sense that my whole commit gets done either before or after yours, file histories are kept separately. ms> Subversion is certainly *way* better on branches, In what way? The features that I think we need in the medium term are history sensitivity (where eg branches 1 and 2 both have patch A, then if branch 1 is merged to trunk followed by branch 2, the system is aware that patch A has been applied and does not create a spurious conflict when branch 2 is merged), and distributed repositories (this would be especially nice for packages, where many package maintainers have their own respositories). What I've seen of the list traffic at subversion seems to indicate that these features will be postponed to "after 1.0". That doesn't mean they're the only desirable ones, but those are the ones I've focused on. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.