Re: Re: Maintaining 'stable' and 'development' versionsof a repository (hopeless newbie question)

Chris Siebenmann wrote:

>  The (theoretical) argument against the straightjacket goes something
> like this:
>
>  First, the version control system alone can't stop people from breaking
> the code. (At best it can do it in cooperation with external tools, like
> test suites that must pass before a change is comitted.)


No-one has suggested that the VCS prevent the code from being broken. 
This particular issue is about the reproducability of the source base 
itself, whether it is broken or not. Determining whether the code is 
broken or not is a matter of language semantics. VCMs never get involved 
beyond a distinction between binary and text with those semantics.

Brendan