Re: RCS, again: another removed functionality: undo last-checkin

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 10/01/2015 10:54 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> That's a very distant possibility.  In general, most features are only
> very loosely coupled, so the complexity increases very slowly,
> certainly sub-linearly.  I don't see why we should be afraid of this
> happening any time soon.

We can disregard orthogonal features, but with related features, 
complexity increases combinatorially.

> If it requires more time, then the situation with the existing
> front-end is not too bad.  When it's really bad, forking a new
> front-end should be much easier.

The amount of work required for that option is independent of the 
situation with the existing front-end. If anything, it would be the 
reverse: the worse the current solution is, the more work needed to 
re-implement it.

> We should try not to make unfortunate decisions.

We made them before, and we'll do them again.

> > It also assumes that the set of backend commands can be static without
> > incurring any cost.
>
> For old back-ends that no longer see significant development,
> definitely.

VC doesn't consist solely of backends.

> Yes, because someone else needs to change ;-)

Humans can forget the previous workflow after switching to the new one, 
and the complexity of the new "muscle memory network" can remain on the 
same order as the previous one.