Re: [sabayon] two things

[Luis Villa <luis villa gmail com>]

On 5/23/05, Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 08:16:36AM +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> > On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 15:40 -0400, Luis Villa wrote:
> > > 2) have you guys considered what it would take/mean to maintain an
> > > unzipped profile in version control? It seems like it would be useful
> > > to me, though admittedly an edge case (and I also admit I haven't
> > > thought it through fully) and I was wondering if you guys had given
> > > any thought to the implications/problems thereof.
> >
> >       Probably not something that would be worthwhile supporting directly,
> > but it should be straightforward enough for you to manually unzip the
> > profile and store its contents in a version control system.
> 
>   One of the design point of the current format is that it allows to
> store internally all the revisions of the current files, i.e. there
> is an internalized control system possible. It does not replace fully
> a centralized external version control system but I think it should fullfill
> 80% of what people would use the version contol for, i.e. be able
> to rollback on mistakes. Of course there are limitations, it's hard
> to integrate flexibly at the UI level and the data would tend to grow
> fast if there is a lot of changes, but it's a first integrated step.

Yeah. Like I said, I'm an edge case- I care because I want to have
collaborative help creating the things, not just the revision control.
 I'll probably experiment some with blowing up the zip and committing
the components, we'll see.

Luis