Variance Adjusted Changesets

[Sander Striker]

> From: changesets-admin at sp.red-bean.com
> [mailto:changesets-admin at sp.red-bean.com]On Behalf Of Federico Di
> Gregorio
> Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 12:23 PM

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>> Logical file identities are only needed for just that, imprecise
>> patching.  I'm willing to argue that you will never _have_ to
>> patch imprecisely.  This is only needed in the scenario where
>> you don't have (read) access to the repository.
> 
> mm.. i don't understand you here. every time you update your working
> tree from last commited version you're doing inexact patching. inexact
> patching is the most common operation when 2 or more developers work on
> the same branch concurrently.

Ok, let me rephrase, you never have to apply the _external_ patch inexactly.
I am referring to the human readable things people post to mailinglists.

Internally you do something equivalent to a merge yes, and that is inexact,
but here you have access to all sources so you won't have to rely on doing
inexact patching by having the context untouched.

Anyhow, I don't have time to go into this right now, but I will try to
find the time to do so later on this week.

Sander