Messages in this thread | | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Re: BitBucket: GPL-ed KitBeeper clone | Date | Thu, 13 Mar 2003 17:53:01 +0100 |
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On Thu 13 Mar 03 02:03, Horst von Brand wrote: > Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de> said: > > [...] > > > For dependencies between changes, rather than any fixed ordering, it's > > better to record the actual precedence information, i.e., "a before b", > > where a and b are id numbers of changes (I think everybody agrees changes > > are first class objects). These precedence relations can be determined > > automatically: if two changes do not occur in the same file, there is no > > certainly no precedence relation. > > Wrong. Edit a header adding a new type T. Later change an existing file > that already includes said header to use T. Change a function, fix most > uses. Find a wrong usage later and fix it separately. Change something, fix > its Documentation/ later. Note how you can come up with dependent changes > that _can't_ be detected automatically.
You confused semantic dependencies with structural dependencies that govern whether or not deltas conflict in the reject sense. Detailed reply is off-list.
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