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Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 00:19:24 +0200
From: Jerome de Vivie <jerome.de-vivie@wanadoo.fr>
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Subject: Re: Yet another linux filesytem: with version control
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Rik van Riel a ?crit :
> 
> 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 ?

With label !

In my initial post, i have explain that labels are used to 
identify individual files AND are also uses to select for 
each files of a set, one version (= select a configuration). 
It works !


> 
> 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" ...

versioning is yet a first step.

j.

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Jerome de Vivie 	jerome . de - vivie @ wanadoo . fr
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