FW: A question about branching, merging

Tim Ellison OTT (Tim_Ellison@oti.com)
Wed, 08 Dec 1999 10:55:08 -0500


From: Tim_Ellison@oti.com (Tim Ellison OTT)
To: ietf-dav-versioning@w3.org (ietf-dav-versioning)
Message-ID: <1999Dec08.105200.1250.1410691@otismtp.ott.oti.com>
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 1999 10:55:08 -0500
Subject: FW: A question about branching, merging


<gc>
..  the spec. should be simplified by replacing
the four properties:
  DAV:predecessor, DAV:successors, DAV:merge-predecessors, 
DAV:merge-sucessors
with the two properties:
  DAV:predecessors, DAV:successors.
</gc>

<tim>
to be clear, you're proposing:

DAV:predecessors (collection)
    A new working resource will initially have a single member which is the 
revision checked out to create this working resource.  Any member may be 
removed or added to the predecessors collection to reflect merging that 
produced this resource.  (Removing the inital member would be unusual but 
permissible.)

DAV:successors (mutable, collection)
    Contains the revisions whose predecessors are this revision.

These properties are not associated with <Activity> extensions.

<gc/>Note: I will interpret silence to mean consent that we simplify (:-).

Ok, I'm silent<g>
</tim>