Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Jan 2002 08:43:31 -0800 | From | Larry McVoy <> | Subject | Re: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin |
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On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 07:35:03PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Larry McVoy wrote: > > > How much of the out order stuff goes away if you could send changes > > out of order as long as they did not overlap (touch the same files)? > > could this be made: 'as long as they do not touch the same lines of code, > taking 3 lines of context into account'? (ie. unified diff definition of > 'collisions' context.)
No. What you described is diff/patch. We have that already and if it really worked in all the cases there would be no need for BitKeeper to exist. I'll be the first to admit that BK is too pedantic about change ordering and atomicity, but you need to see that there is a spectrum and if we slid BK over to what you described it would be a meaningless tool, it would basically be a lot of code implementing what people already do with diff/patch. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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