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From: Patrick Lam (plam@plam.lcs.mit.edu)
Date: Sat May 18 2002 - 00:25:05 EDT

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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

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