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\begin_layout Title
Element Model
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\begin_layout Author
Julian Foad
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Overview
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Introduction
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Imagine a user who:
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is familiar with version control concepts 
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is not familiar with Subversion specifics 
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expects directories to be versioned (not just files) 
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expects move tracking (as opposed to move 'detection')
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The design aims to satisfy such a user.
 
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Move tracking is intimately related to merging.
 The original goal was to make merging work well in the presence of moves.
 A move tracking model is required in order to support merging.
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The purpose for this design is to explore how Subversion could support move
 tracking, so that we can evaluate its advantages and disadvantages and
 decide whether we want to implement something based on this idea or to
 go in a different direction.
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The presentation here pretends that we have free rein to redesign Subversion
 from the ground up.
 As such it is best to read this with the idea in mind of implementing a
 new prototype and seeing how it works, and not to think in terms of adapting
 the existing Subversion.
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The 'svnmover' prototype on the 'move-tracking-2' branch already implements
 much of this model.
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Key Features
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Simple and powerful model of moves
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easy to understand (for users and developers)
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moves are atomic and never 'broken' into two halves
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deterministic result for arbitrary combinations of moving and other operations
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Symmetry between the 'revisions' dimension and the 'branches' dimension
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a diff between two branches has the same form and capabilities as a diff
 between two revisions of a branch
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unlike historical Subversion
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enables uniform definition of 3-way merge given any 3 points in a merge
 DAG
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Flexible nested branching
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\begin_deeper
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branching at arbitrary paths
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flexible subbranching, inside and/or outside the parent branch
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e.g.
 /trunk/foo-branch1, /trunk/foo-branch2, /branches/foo-branch3
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Simpler tree conflicts
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the possible kinds of tree conflicts are easily enumerated
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Other Potential Benefits
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Repository entropy reduction
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Orthogonal branching namespace at the root path level
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Cross-repository branching and merging
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Repository Entropy Reduction
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Often a Subversion repository contains metadata that conveys no intentional
 information but only accidental information.
 Examples:
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move with a copy-from revision older than (new rev - 1)
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move with the delete half and the copy half committed in separate revisions
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copy/branch from revision (new rev - N) where there is no change between
 that and (new rev - 1)
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copy/branch with a subtree replaced with a different revision of itself,
 e.g.
 r122645 in ASF repo
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no-op roll-back: replace with self copied from (new rev - 1)
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In the new model, many such cases can be reduced to a true no-op.
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move is atomic
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branching from R < (new rev - 1)
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### TBD whether and how it will store copy-from revision
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copy from R < (new rev - 1)
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### TBD how it will store copy-from revision
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if wanted, the new design could encourage updating the copy-from on update
 and on commit
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no-op roll-back can be a true no-op if the UI encourages 'resurrect' or
 'roll-back' command semantics rather than plain 'copy'
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Orthogonal Branching
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While it is designed for path-addressed branches, this model itself does
 not require that each branch is attached to a unique path.
 With little or no change to the basic model, we could support branching
 at the root path level within a repository, where branches are addressed
 in a name-space orthogonal to the path namespace, as used in popular DVCSs.
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More or less the only addition that would be required is a method for addressing
 the branches: an extension to the branch id scheme, and extensions to the
 APIs for converting to and from path-space.
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This could be useful both on its own and for greater compatibility with
 DVCSs.
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Cross-Repository Branching
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The model supports, in principle, cross-repository branching and merging.
 Element identifiers would need to be extended to include a repository identifie
r.
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Potential Cons
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No built-in way to retrospectively convert separately created subtrees to
 related branches.
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The mental model will be unfamiliar to users, at first.
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Unfinished Design
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Branching -- how to track the 'from' branch and revision.
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3-way merge -- how to deal with a subtree root node.
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Merge history.
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TODO (in the document)
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rename 'subbranch-root' to something less like 'branch root': perhaps 'branch-po
int' or 'subbranch-element'?
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Glossary
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branch a set of elements arranged in a tree, with a branch-root element
 at the root of the tree; a leaf node of the tree can be a file node element
 or a subbranch-root element; a subbranch-root element is part of this branch
 but the subbranch it links to is not
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\begin_layout Description
branch-root the root element of a branch; carries its own payload, but its
 location is determined solely by the corresponding (linked) subbranch-root
 element of the outer branch; see also subbranch-root
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eid element identifier, uniquely identifying an element within a branch
 and matching the equivalent element in another branch; an arbitrary token
 that supports comparison for equality and being used as an index key
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element a file or directory or subbranch-root; the smallest unit of merging;
 versioned content is (depending on context) its parent element id and name,
 and/or its payload;
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location the tree-structure part of the versioned content of an element:
 that is, the element's parent-eid and name
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payload the non-tree-structure part of the versioned content of an element:
 that is, the element's properties (for a file or directory) and text (for
 a file)
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subbranch-root the kind of element that links a subbranch to an outer branch;
 has a versioned parent-eid and name
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target may refer to the target of a merge; or to the target path of a symlink,
 if symlinks are supported
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The Model
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Element Model
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Introduction
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Subversion fundamentally tracks versions of a tree of the user's primary
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 A versioned tree consists of:
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nodes (files, directories) with their user properties and other user content
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the tree structure
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Subversion also tracks metadata describing the versions of and changes to
 the versioned tree, including:
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branches
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merge history
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Historically, Subversion tracked the branches by using part of the pathname
 within the repository.
 In the element model, we must think of the user's versioned content as
 being clearly distinct from the branch identification prefix of the in-reposito
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The structure and content of a versioned tree can be precisely defined as
 comprising the following attributes on each node:
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payload:
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kind (file or directory), properties, text
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location within versioned tree (except for the root of the versioned tree):
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parent node identifier
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name
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We no longer think of a directory as holding a list of its children; instead,
 each child holds a single reference that identifies its parent.
 In this way, the high level conceptual idea of a 
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move
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 is modeled by a change to exactly one element.
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The root node of a versioned tree must be treated specially.
 When merging changes from one branch of this versioned tree to another,
 only the payload of this root node must be merged; its parent and name
 are part of the external structure of the repository, the branching metadata,
 not part of this versioned tree.
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Each branch root is modeled by a linked pair of elements: a subbranch-root
 element which belongs to the outer branch (and has a location but no payload),
 linked to a node element which is the root element of the inner branch
 (and has only a payload).
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The root path of the repository is defined as being a root node of a branch.
 In typical Subversion work flows this would not be thought of as a branch.
 Any normal branch in a typical Subversion work flow would be modeled as
 a subbranch of the root branch.
 For example, we might create a subbranch-root element at the path 'trunk',
 linked to a branch root node of the kind 'directory' and having a (possibly
 empty) set of properties.
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A subbranch-root element acts like a container that contains a nested subbranch.
 When merging such an element, the whole nested subbranch is treated as
 a unit and handled by a recursive application of the merge algorithm.
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The term 'elements' refers collectively to nodes and to subbranch-root elements.
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Elements, Nodes, Paths, Payloads
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An element is either a node element or a subbranch-root element.
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A node element represents a file or a directory, or maybe in future a symlink.
 Each node element has versioned content called its payload.
 The payload for a file is its text and properties; the payload for a symlink
 is its target and properties.
 The payload for a directory is its properties only.
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The children of a directory do not belong to the directory in this model.
 Instead, the child-parent relationships are modeled by each element having
 a 
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The (parent, name, payload) of an element is its versioned content.
 The basic unit of change tracking (including merge tracking) is the change
 to the content of one element in one revision.
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A subbranch-root element carries a location but no explicit payload.
 Instead, it represents the connection of a subbranch with its outer branch.
 The subbranch-root element's fixed attribute 
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subbranch-root-eid
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attributes of an element 
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fixed attributes:
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eid
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kind: 'node' | 'subbranch-root'
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node-kind: 'file' | 'dir' # iff kind=node
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subbranch-root-eid # iff kind=subbranch-root
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payload: (props, [text | target]) # iff kind=node
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Repository Root
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An new repository in Subversion is given a single directory node as its
 root element.
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As a branch root element, the repository root element has no parent-eid
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 However, it can be branched to another path, although in typical work flows
 that would not be done.
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Paths
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At each path there is exactly one node element (if there is anything at
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 This carries the payload at that path, and in most cases carries the location
 information (parent and name) of that path as well.
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 A subbranch-root element belonging to the outer branch carries the location
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### 
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Within a revision, elements map to paths as follows:
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 [table showing an example] ?
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Branch
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A branch is addressed by the sequence of subbranch-root elements that must
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 The repository root branch is addressed by a zero-length sequence.
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For example, with integer EIDs, the repository root branch address is '',
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 is '53.14141' or '12001.12345'.
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### Example as a table of paths and their branch ids?
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The branching model supports whole-repository branching, as used in many
 DVCSs.
 While it has been assumed in the descriptions above that each branch root
 is mapped to a different path in a single repository-wide path-space, we
 could also provide a way to map branches to a new branching name-space
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3-way Merging
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Here we cover the rules for calculating the result of a 3-way merge.
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We assume the base state (usually a youngest common ancestor) and the other
 two states (variously called 'source' and 'target', or 'side 1' and 'side
 2') are already known.
 The section on Merge History covers the higher layer of merging: deciding
 what changes need to be merged and what three-way merges (with which bases)
 will be used to accomplish it.
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It is characteristic of this model that elements are uniquely paired across
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The aspect of 3-way merging most relevant to the element branching model
 is how the tree shapes are merged.
 The payload of each element (such as its properties and text) can be merged
 with a traditional 3-way text merge.
 The merging of payload is not described here because it need not differ
 from traditional practice.
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Stages of Tree Shape Merge
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Calculation of a 3-way merge is largely per element in this model.
 For each element, we specify how to merge any two changes to that element.
 In the second stage we specify how to combine the per-element merges into
 a whole tree merge.
 In both stages we specify which combinations should be regarded as conflicting.
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The two main stages:
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Per element, 3-way merge the element's content (parent-eid, name, payload).
 Identify in-element conflicts.
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Check the result for multi-element conflicts (clashes, cycles and orphans).
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It may be useful to (partially) order the merging of elements, so as to
 build up the result tree in parent-to-child order.
 This would ensure we don't cause the user to spend effort in resolving
 conflicts in a subtree when a tree conflict occurring higher up the hierarchy
 might make them decide to throw away the whole subtree.
 However, it is impossible to determine a complete top-down ordering of
 the result tree in advance, in general, when the result will depend on
 conflict resolution choices.
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Per element, 3-way merge
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For each element that appears in any of the three sides of the merge, we
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\begin_layout Plain Layout
\begin_inset Caption Standard

\begin_layout Plain Layout
3-way merge of a single element
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LatexCommand label
name "tab:3-way-mg-single"

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\begin_layout Standard
Notes:
\end_layout

\begin_layout Itemize
\begin_inset Quotes eld
\end_inset

add
\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset

 -- includes a copy, for these purposes.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Itemize
\begin_inset Quotes eld
\end_inset

conflict
\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset

 -- consider this a conflict, unless the user preconfigured what to do with
 it.
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\begin_layout Itemize
[1] -- conflict if we detect a clash
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\begin_layout Itemize
[2] -- conflict if we detect an orphaned subtree
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsection
Merging Parent and Name Separately
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\begin_layout Standard
Table 2 suggests that an element's location (parent-eid and name) should
 be treated as a unit.
 If a conflict occurs, the conflict relates to the parent-eid and name together.
 An alternative is to merge the two parts separately.
 This implies allowing a conflict to be raised and resolved for either or
 both parts independently.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
Each part independently:
\end_layout

\begin_layout Itemize
merge ('foo' renamed to 'bar') with ('foo' moved to 'D/foo'): result is
 'D/bar'.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
Both parts together:
\end_layout

\begin_layout Itemize
merge ('foo' renamed to 'bar') with ('foo' moved to 'D/foo'): conflict.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
The choice of whether a conflict should apply to both parts together or
 each part separately is one of user preference and the best choice would
 depend on the scenario.
 In essence it is a user interface issue.
 If the merge logic is to be provided in a library, this should be designed
 to handle the two parts separately so that the UI layer has the choice
 to treat them either together or separately.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
The idea is exactly the same as allowing text and property conflicts on
 the same element to be handled separately.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
It is logical to generalize the idea to treating any or all of the component
 parts of an element's content (parent-eid, name, properties, text, ...) together
 or separately for the purposes of conflict handling.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsection
Conflict Policies
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
Conflict detection is fundamentally subjective: any two changes could conflict
 semantically.
 The job of a good merge tool is to help the user by flagging combinations
 of changes that are likely to need human intervention, while quietly resolving
 the rest in a way that is likely to be satisfactory.
 Because the needs of users and the degree of semantic coupling depend on
 the use case, the tool therefore should not be configurable in what cases
 are reported as a conflict.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
Configurability is provided by a merge policy.
 The policy is a statement of what combinations should be flagged as a conflict
 and what should be resolved automatically.
 As a starting point, one 'strict' policy and one 'permissive' policy are
 suggested.
 The policies suggested here differ only in their treatment of duplicate
 changes -- cases where both sides of the merge are making the same change.
 In some merge scenarios it is known and intentional that many of the same
 changes are being made on both sides, and in those scenarios the permissive
 policy may be more helpful.
 In scenarios where a duplicate change is not expected and may indicate
 an error has been made, then the strict policy may be more helpful.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
It is also helpful to have a different policy for user-initiated merges
 than for rebase-on-commit merges.
 The latter has historically been implemented in Subversion with a fairly
 strict policy.
 (Note also that due to the architecture of the commit process there is
 no option to store conflicts and have the user resolve them.
 Any conflict results in immediate failure of the commit.)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
A merge policy can also specify which parts of an element's content are
 merged together, as discussed in the section 'Merging Parent and Name Separatel
y' above.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsection
Per-Element Conflicts
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
As seen in Table 2 above.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Itemize
Duplicate add: the same element is added on both sides, at the same location/par
ent-eid/name.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Itemize
Duplicate mv: the same element is moved on both sides, to the same location/pare
nt-eid/name.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Itemize
Duplicate del: the same element is deleted on both sides.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Itemize
Add vs.
 add: the same element is added on both sides, at different locations/parent-eid
s/names.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Itemize
Move vs.
 move: the same element is moved on both sides, to different locations/parent-ei
ds/names.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Itemize
Move vs.
 delete: the same element is moved on one side and deleted on the other
 side.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsection
Multi-Element Conflicts
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
After or during the per-element merge, it is necessary to check for the
 following kinds of conflict that affect more than one element.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsubsection
Clashes
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
There is a clash if two or more elements have the same parent-eid and the
 same name.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
This is always a conflict.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsubsection
Orphans
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
An element is an orphan if its parent is not present (is deleted or is not
 added) in the merge result.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
When this applies to an element that is modified as a result of the merge,
 that is a conflict.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
When this applies to an element that is not modified as a result of the
 merge, the element is silently deleted.
 This means that deleting a parent directory causes all its children in
 the target to be deleted, not only the children that it had in the source.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
A merge policy option could enable a stricter option here.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsubsection
Cycles
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
There is a cycle if following the parent-eid chain from an element leads,
 sooner or later, back to itself rather than to the branch root.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
This is always a conflict.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsection
Subtree Merge
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
When merging a 'subtree' it is necessary to decide what exactly is meant
 by a 'subtree'.
 Historically a subtree was defined by specifying a subtree root element.
 Now that moves are supported, a given element can be inside the given subtree
 root element on one 'side' of the merge and outside it on another side
 of the merge.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
Suggestions:
\end_layout

\begin_layout Itemize
merge changes to whole elements: never merge 'half' of a move
\end_layout

\begin_layout Itemize
take the union of the elements in the subtrees at each side of the merge
\end_layout

\begin_layout Itemize
if the merged result for any element 'moves' the element outside the target,
 in other words to a parent that does not exist in the target, that is a
 conflict
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
The 'location' attributes of the subtree root element must be ignored when
 merging.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Itemize
### That's inconsistent.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
Note that a given element may be the root of one branch and a subtree in
 another branch.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Section
Merge History
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
Merge history is required to track which changes are present in which branches.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsection
Requirements
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
Merge history should:
\end_layout

\begin_layout Itemize
track 
\emph on
original 
\emph default
changes separately from merges
\end_layout

\begin_layout Itemize
track changes that originated in 
\emph on
this branch
\emph default
 as well as in other branches
\end_layout

\begin_layout Itemize
track changes at the granularity of 
\emph on
branch-element-revs
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
The system should enable merge history to be treated as a DAG in cases where
 'complete' merging is being performed.
 In other words, after a complete merge, it should be clear from the merge
 history that there is a point that can be treated as a youngest common
 ancestor.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
Merge history also provides the metadata necessary to answer 
\begin_inset Quotes eld
\end_inset

from which branch and revision was this branch branched?
\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset

 -- see the section on Copying.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsection
Subtree Merge History
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
Merge history shall indicate that a change is logically present in the branch.
 This means the effect of the change is in the branch, even if no longer
 in the same form as the original change.
 Therefore mergeinfo does not inherently belong at the element level, but
 at the whole branch level.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
### Is mergeinfo attached to a 
\begin_inset Quotes eld
\end_inset

subtree
\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset

 or rather a subset of elements, in order to track subtree merges?
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
The smallest unit of tracked changes shall be the change to the versioned
 content of one element (parent-eid, name, payload) in one revision.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Itemize
### How to deal with merging only the payload of the subtree root element
 in a subtree merge, separately from merging the location change of the
 same element in an outer merge? Perhaps complain if both the payload and
 the location of that node changed, as it's an unlikely scenario in many
 use cases.
 But that's not rigorous.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
### ...
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsection
Design
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
### TBD
\end_layout

\begin_layout Section
Copying
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
In old svn, copying inserted metadata that said 
\begin_inset Quotes eld
\end_inset

node-rev foo@100 was copied from /bar@95
\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset

.
 Apart from being visible in 
\begin_inset Quotes eld
\end_inset

log -v
\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset

 and 
\begin_inset Quotes eld
\end_inset

info
\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset

, the only way this affected behaviour was that commands such as 
\begin_inset Quotes eld
\end_inset

log
\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset

 or 
\begin_inset Quotes eld
\end_inset

merge
\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset

 with this node as the target would follow copies backwards.
 This could be useful for simulating moves, to a degree.
 But a copy was not recognized as an operation that could be merged to another
 branch.
 Instead, merge treated a copy the same as a simple add; in both cases,
 the result was a copy from the source branch.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
Copying as a separate concept is no longer much needed, as the model natively
 supports the following cases where a 'copy' was previously used:
\end_layout

\begin_layout Itemize
moving
\end_layout

\begin_layout Itemize
branching
\end_layout

\begin_layout Itemize
merging a node creation into another branch
\end_layout

\begin_layout Itemize
resurrecting (the latest version or an older version, including roll-back
 by resurrecting an older version to replace the current version)
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
The only remaining case for copying is:
\end_layout

\begin_layout Itemize
making a new node or subtree 
\end_layout

\begin_deeper
\begin_layout Itemize
that starts off identical to an existing (past or present) one
\end_layout

\begin_layout Itemize
and that records a historical link to it
\end_layout

\end_deeper
\begin_layout Standard
There is no need for this kind of 'plain' copying to be modeled explicitly
 at this level.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
Recommendation:
\end_layout

\begin_layout Itemize
the copy-from for a plain copy is recorded as revision-property metadata,
 or at a higher layer of model
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsection
How New Features Replace Copying
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
The copy-from metadata is replaced in the following way in the new model,
 for each case that was previously represented by a copy:
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
### DIAGRAMS
\end_layout

\begin_layout Itemize
moving
\end_layout

\begin_deeper
\begin_layout Itemize
normal (in-branch) -- history is perfectly represented
\end_layout

\begin_layout Itemize
cross-branch -- use merge history to represent from-branch
\end_layout

\begin_layout Itemize
copy from older version -- treat as move plus roll-back (use merge history
 to represent from-revision)
\end_layout

\end_deeper
\begin_layout Itemize
branching -- use merge history to represent from-branch; copying from non-head:
 treat as roll-back?
\end_layout

\begin_layout Itemize
merging a creation -- use merge history to represent from-branch; from-revision
 is meaningless
\end_layout

\begin_layout Itemize
ressurecting
\end_layout

\begin_deeper
\begin_layout Itemize
normal (in branch) -- use merge history to represent any roll-back
\end_layout

\begin_layout Itemize
cross-branch -- similar to merging a creation
\end_layout

\end_deeper
\begin_layout Itemize
making a new node or subtree -- use merge history?
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsection
Merge History as Copy-From Metadata
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
Merge history can replace much of the semantics of copy-from metadata.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
### basically:
\end_layout

\begin_layout Itemize
on copying, set the history to 'COPYFROMPATH : all revs up to COPYFROMREV'
\end_layout

\begin_layout Itemize
on reading, if the history looks like this (ignoring further merges) then
 report the history as 'copied from ...', else don't
\end_layout

\begin_layout Subsection
Translating from new model back to 'copy-from' metadata
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
###
\end_layout

\begin_layout Section
Branch Management
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
The 'elements' model deliberately does not address branch management.
 By branch management I mean things such as
\end_layout

\begin_layout Itemize
whether each project contains its own branches, or each branch contains
 multiple projects;
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\begin_layout Itemize
branch promotion models, governing which kinds of merge are allowed between
 which branches;
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\begin_layout Itemize
designating branches as 'dev' or 'release' or 'mainline';
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\begin_layout Itemize
where/when/whether subbranching is allowed.
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\begin_layout Standard
Branch management should be modelled and implemented at a higher layer.
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\begin_layout Section
The Working Copy
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\begin_layout Standard
The fundamental purpose of the working copy (WC) is to hold a base state
 and local changes against that state, in order to build (offline) a new
 commit.
 A single commit, in Subversion so far.
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\begin_layout Standard
As such, the design of the WC must match the design of the repository.
 A move-tracking WC will work with the element model.
 The WC represents a base state and a working state, each comprising a set
 of elements.
 It may be stored as a complete base state and a difference.
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\begin_layout Standard
Special considerations:
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\begin_layout Itemize
mixed-rev: each element at its own rev; each element appears only once (no
 'appears at two paths' confusion)
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\begin_layout Itemize
...
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\begin_layout Subsection
Checkout, Update, Switch, Commit
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\begin_layout Standard
Basic WC state operations including Checkout, Update, Switch, Commit, Diff
 and Merge shall all make use of basic element-mode diff or edit APIs.
 For most of these operations a contextual diff is required in order to
 provide a good merge.
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\begin_layout Standard
(Commit requires less context because its rebase merge is more restricted:
 for example, it does not merge text or properties so no context is required
 for them.
 Update and Switch perhaps do not need context in areas where there are
 no local changes.
 Checkout probably does not require any context.)
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\begin_layout Subsection
Mixed-Rev WC Operation
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\begin_layout Standard
Each element in the WC has its own base revision.
 A commit will update only the elements for which it commits a change, resulting
 in a mixed-rev WC.
 Any element of set of elements can be updated separately, resulting in
 a mixed-rev WC.
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\begin_layout Standard
An update shall convey a set of per-element changes.
 These can include moving elements.
 When an update attempts to transform the base state into a non-tree configurati
on (such as with a cycle or a name clash or a deleted parent) the update
 shall be rejected and the WC unchanged.
 An update shall only succeed if it results in a tree configuration for
 the new base state.
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\begin_layout Standard
A successful update to the base state shall be merged with the working state
 to produce the new working state.
 Any resulting tree conflicts shall be recorded in the WC to be resolved
 by the user, like in old Subversion except the kinds of conflicts are different.
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\begin_layout Standard
Consequences:
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\begin_layout Itemize
elements may be at different base revisions without ambiguity in the semantics
\end_layout

\begin_layout Itemize
there is no such thing as a broken/split/half move
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