  Re: Newbie Versioning Question  From: Geoffrey M. Clemm
<geoffrey.clemm@rational.com> Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 18:06:03
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versioning@w3.org     From: "Edeen, Eric"
<eedeen@pesolutions.com>     I have (what I hope) is a
relatively straight forward question regarding the    Delta-V
versioning model. Does the spec require implementations to
support    version branching, i.e., versions with two or more
successors?  We call that "forking" (since we use the term
"branch" for a special kind of activity), but no, a server does
not have to support version forking.  An interoperable
versioning client SHOULD be prepared to deal with forking (since
it may encounter it), but it can deal with it in as primitive a
way as it wants (something better than "dumping core" is
probably preferable :-).     Can an    implementation that
supports only linear version still be compliant with the  Yes.
The standard way to expose this restriction is to have th