[darcs-users] Fwd: Towards a conflict-free revision control system.
Kari Hoijarvi
hoijarvi at seas.wustl.edu
Wed Jan 21 15:46:31 UTC 2009
Trent W. Buck wrote:
> This is a non-trivial task to implement.
It sure is. I saw the demo 1997. It was reimplemented completely before
2000. And they never got it out as a competing product.
> In particular, if your READ
> procedure has a bug, you can easily get completely screwed. I spoke
> once to someone who tried to use lint (with svn, IIRC) for this purpose,
> and they discovered that it would break some of their more complex cpp
> macros.
>
The C macros were turned into IP macros, which behaved more like lisp
macros. I'm sure it's easy to come up with a C macro thet their parser
could not handle.
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