Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Some issues

[Aaron Bentley]

Cameron Patrick wrote:

> IIRC Subversion allows you to define external commands to run when
> applying patches (actually 3-way merging I suppose) to specific types
> of (non-text) files.  I don't know if anyone actually uses this
> functionality.

Merging is a very different case, because the user can use whatever 
tools they have available, and only the output matters.  For storage, 
it's important to ensure that tla doesn't depend on external tools that 
not everyone has.

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Aaron Bentley
Director of Technology
Panometrics, Inc.