Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 01:08:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 01:08:57 -0500 Received: from almesberger.net ([63.105.73.239]:12560 "EHLO host.almesberger.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 01:08:56 -0500 Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 03:19:31 -0300 From: Werner Almesberger To: Zack Brown Cc: Horst von Brand , Daniel Phillips , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: BitBucket: GPL-ed KitBeeper clone Message-ID: <20030312031930.X2791@almesberger.net> References: <20030311184043.GA24925@renegade> <200303120347.h2C3loEG002703@eeyore.valparaiso.cl> <20030312052225.GO4716@renegade> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030312052225.GO4716@renegade>; from zbrown@tumblerings.org on Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 09:22:25PM -0800 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1297 Lines: 31 Zack Brown wrote: > Maybe the system should simply ignore the whole concept of time as occurring > in discrete ticks, and just measure time as the relative history of > changesets. Real time is still useful, if only as a hint to users. E.g. assume that you have dependencies the SCM doesn't know about. Example: somebody posts on linux-kernel a one-line fix for a remote root exploit. You'll instantly get dozens of people who will apply that one to their local views, without waiting or making a common unique change set. Some of those view may have branched from a long time ago, and not have touched any common change set for months. So the partial order of applied change sets tells you very little. Naturally, such one-line fixes will be slightly different, and eventually, some of them will merge ... - Werner -- _________________________________________________________________________ / Werner Almesberger, Buenos Aires, Argentina wa@almesberger.net / /_http://www.almesberger.net/____________________________________________/ - 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/