On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 12:55:30PM -0400, Kent Borg wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 05:27:58PM +0200, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:
>
> > That would actually be pretty interesting because it might also allow you to
> > back out editor screwups ;-)
>
> Writing an editor to take advantage of such underlying features would
> be pretty interesting too, it could be integrated into undo/redo
> features.
>
> Navigating such an historical fabric turns into a really interesting
> user interface problem.
There was a paper presented at SCM8 on just such a system. They used Emacs.
Multi-Grain Version Control in the Historian System
Makram Abu-Shakra and Gene L. Fisher
California Polytechnic State University, USA
This paper describes Historian, a version control system that supports
comprehensive versioning and features to aid history
navigation. Comprehensive versioning is supported through frequent and
automated creation of versions which typically results in a large number
of versions. To reduce user overhead in history navigation, the
hierarchical structure present in most documents is utilized to support
fine-grained version control. The series of document editing operations is
also organized hierarchically and can be used for navigation as well.
-josh
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