On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 04:30:22PM -0700, Paul Rohr wrote: > The preceding email got long, so I wanted to quickly highlight one thing. > We seem to have (at least) two separate problems to solve here: > > 1. how/when to detect/flag all changes in a single version > 2. how to represent changes from multiple versions simultaneously > > Key issues for #1 are whether to do so at edit time, or at export time, and > if so how. For one starting point on thinking that through, see my previous > message. > > Key issues for #2 are currently being addressed in the revision marks > thread. I haven't thought those through at all.
Has anyone considered what CVS and PRCS do for some of the issues here? I know that in particular the authors of PRCS have carefully considered the questions of merges and conflicts in version management. The PRCS homepage is at http://prcs.sourceforge.net pat
