[Buildbot-commits] [Buildbot] #669: Clean up VC modes

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#669: Clean up VC modes
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Reporter:  dustin       |       Owner:  dustin                                             
    Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new                                                
Priority:  major        |   Milestone:  0.8.2                                              
 Version:  0.7.12       |    Keywords:  svn hg git cvs p4 bk darcs monotone arch, ship-this
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Comment(by dustin):

 Right, and the point of this bug is that the third indented paragraph in
 your comment is not a "third option" - it's an alternate implementation of
 mode=clean.  I want to change the proliferation of modes into a two-level
 hierarchy:

  1.  mode {incremental|clean}
  1.  implementation (arbitrary per VC)

 and ideally you could specify the implementation for each mode
 independently, so that when the admin forces a mode change e.g., through
 the web interface, it would still use the desired implementation.

 Git and SVN both have a proliferation of implementations of each mode, and
 to date these have been swapped in willy-nilly (on the basis that the new
 way is obviously superior, even though it's often not appropriate or
 optimal for existing users).

 Thanks for the feedback wrt darcs!

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