Re: FW: A question about branching, mer
Tim Ellison OTT (Tim_Ellison@oti.com)
Wed, 08 Dec 1999 14:25:51 -0500
From: Tim_Ellison@oti.com (Tim Ellison OTT)
To: ietf-dav-versioning@w3.org (ietf-dav-versioning),
Message-ID: <1999Dec08.142400.1250.1411133@otismtp.ott.oti.com>
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 1999 14:25:51 -0500
Subject: Re: FW: A question about branching, mer
>This sounds like it breaks the revision history of a
>versioned resource. Don't think we want to allow that.
If the resource is a merge result of two or more 'source' resources, I claim
that there is no reason to believe that the CHECKOUT'd resource has any more
precedence in the revision history than other contributors to the merged
resource.
I agree that in general people will choose the closest match as a starting
point for the merge, but 'closest match' is in the eye of the client, they
might not choose a closest match, or there may be no such concept.
Why does it break the revision history? The history _is_ the merge.
Tim