More I in an IDE

[learnedax]

Sparked by some comments by sml, I return to an idea that's been bouncing around in my head: an IDE that truly integrated with source control. It's useful that many modern IDEs help you with checking projects in and out, but mostly they're just taking the place of some other SCM client. There are three ways in which I think an IDE can leverage its

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[rickthefightguy]

Wow. I am pretty sure I know what the majority of words in that post mean, but not in that order.

[learnedax]

I tagged it 'programming'... maybe I should have added 'abstruse'.

[rickthefightguy]

Oh, I saw the tag - I was warned. But I never let ignorance get in my way.... :-)

[buddhagrrl]

This post reminds me why I don't want to be a developer anymore. :-p

(One of my all time least favorite programming tasks is not the programming itself but the messy merges and figuring out where good code went bad...)

[learnedax]

Well, it's probably a fine book, but I am already familiar with most of the problems in SCM... and this is rather tangential to them. This approach should be pretty SCM agnostic, though I think it has the potential to significantly improve the merging situation, so in practical terms it causes fewer people regular pain.

[learnedax]

Cool. Do you get to leverage all the semantic analysis work that's out there, or are you stuck re-inventing the wheel?