Re: [Aegis-developers] Insulating from the parent branch

[walter f. <wal...@pu...>]

On 8/24/07, Peter Miller <mi...@ca...> wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 09:37 +0200, walter franzini wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > this morning on the train I worked on the attached patch.
> > Is someone interested?
>
> yes

:-)

[...]

>
> > To be able to use the symlink farm, the view_path and to get derived
> > file from the (old) baseline we need some sort of shadow baseline.
>
> About the symlinks, fall back to copies (and if the dev dir style
> forbids this, give an error and tell them to unpin to fix it, or change
> dev dir style).

ok

> So small!

The only drawback is that it depend on the presence of .pfs files.
Without .pfs we cannot have a time safe behavior and so no insulation
(or pinning).

> Any reason it can't pin individual change sets, too?

No, it should work with anything that get parsed as a change identifier.

-- 
walter