Re: Entity back pointers to the branch Jonathan S. Shapiro (shap@eros-os.org)
Mon, 12 Jun 2000 14:42:51 -0400

> Note that when I am doing code archeology, I generally am interested in
the
> granularity of one or more lines of code to changes in a particular
> subroutine/procedure/method/function or whatever your language calls it,
> not changes to the whole source file.

Agreed, and the PCMS repository can handle this, but I don't know how to recover it without doing finer grain tracking than the current user agent is designed for.

This raises an interesting design question about history tracking: should recording be per-file or per-commit? I'm currently building on the per-commit assumption, but it's not too late to change that.