Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: FreeBSD's requirements for its future VCS

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 12:12:16AM +0100, Bruce Stephens wrote:
> And doing something or other so that syncing doesn't just revive them,
> and so that everyone else syncing gets an opportunity to conveniently
> move the revisions too (including transplanting any descendents that
> they have that weren't in the original).
> 
> It all feels doable, but I suspect it'll involve some effort to be
> realistically usable.  Probably valuable (for those relatively rare
> occasions where you want it) for people other than FreeBSD.

A crude, netsync-time, "do not accept the following revisions into
this database" would be straightforward enough.

For court orders, there are also epochs.

-- Nathaniel

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When the flush of a new-born sun fell first on Eden's green and gold,
Our father Adam sat under the Tree and scratched with a stick in the mould;
And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart,
Till the Devil whispered behind the leaves, "It's pretty, but is it Art?"
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