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Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 18:51:36 -0300 (BRST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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To: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
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Subject: Re: Yet another linux filesytem: with version control
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On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Larry McVoy wrote:

> b) Filesystem support for SCM is really a flawed approach.

Agreed.  I mean, how can you cleanly group changesets and
versions with a filesystem level "transparent" SCM ?

The goal of an SCM is to _manage_ versions and changesets,
if it doesn't do that we're back at CVS's "every file its
own versioning and to hell with manageability" ...

regards,

Rik
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