Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of VcRefactoring

Timestamp:

Feb 7, 2006, 2:45:15 PM (18 years ago)

Author:

Christian Boos

Comment:

Rough sketch for the new version control refactoring

VcRefactoring

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+= Version Control Refactoring =
+
+This branch is a sandbox for introducing new features
+that are potentially disruptive.
+
+This is based on the previous refactoring and on the
+TracDiff branch, both of them pretty much stable
+and already integrated in the trunk for milestone:0.10.
+
+The forthcoming changes aim to be better support some
+advanced version control system backends, like 
+[http://www.selenic.com/mercurial Mercurial].
+To that effect, the changes added to the core will be 
+exercised by jointly developing the TracMercurial plugin.
+
+See also the related 
+[http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.subversion.trac.devel/161 thread]
+on the Trac Devel mailing list.
+
+== Support for Multiple scopes within a Repository ==
+
+This basically means fixing #1830.
+
+
+== Support for Mercurial-like Version Control System ==
+
+===  Basic Level ===
+ * support for non-numerical changesets (start with hexadecimal digit support)
+ * support for extra changeset properties
+
+Those are the minimal changes needed so that the Mercurial plugin can work at all.
+
+
+=== Advanced Level === 
+
+ * Support for direct jump to a tag or a branch
+ * Support for arbitrary changeset names (e.g. `[tip]` or `[head]`)
+
+=== Support for Big Repositories ===
+
+This means extended cache support, and certainly needs some big changes
+to the way caching is done.
+