"revision" considered confusing (was: Outdated Wiki Page?)

[Aaron Bentley]

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John Yates wrote:
> On Tue 2007-04-24 Aaron Bentley defending the term revision wrote:
> 
>> It also doesn't apply to VCSes that don't store snapshots, like
>> Darcs or, depending on your POV, Gnu Arch.
> 
> I know nothing about Gnu Arch though I wonder whether Martin's
> delta/snapshot equivalence argument might not apply.  While you
> as an implementor may care about underlying representations when
> I explain vc to non-programmers I find the image of a succession
> of snapshots the clearest expositional model.

In Gnu Arch, both the deltas and the snapshots are exposed at the
highest level, and it is difficult to claim that one or the other is the
primary representation.

> As for Darcs, I know that claiming that record creates a new
> revision

At this point, you were talking using "snapshot" to replace "commit"
(and by implication "darcs record").

Aaron
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