Thu, Sep 21, 2006

Stuff Management over time

by Austin Govella

All stuff management systems capture a default moment in time, usually the most recent moment, the most recent version of now.

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All stuff management systems capture a default moment in time, usually the most recent moment, the most recent version of now. Sometimes this is enough, but frequently you need to recall other versions. Add time to Stuff Management, and you get version management.

Since a good system only manages pointers to stuff, pointing to a different version is easy. You can point to old versions, current versions, alternate versions, or future versions. The system doesn?

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