Subject: Re: The direction linux is taking
To: lm@bitmover.com (Larry McVoy)
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 10:07:36 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox), lm@bitmover.com (Larry McVoy),
        bcrl@redhat.com (Benjamin LaHaise),
        oxymoron@waste.org (Oliver Xymoron),
        wingel@hog.ctrl-c.liu.se (Christer Weinigel),
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
In-Reply-To: <20011229184921.B27114@work.bitmover.com> from "Larry McVoy" at Dec 29, 2001 06:49:21 PM
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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> the human doing the merging.  So far, it seems more like nobody is 
> doing any merging, Dave says someone does but nobody else has spoken

Lots of people do. I get all my wireless, my isdn, my usb
patches all nicely prepacked and merged for example.

> up and I tend to think that merging is not a common process in the
> Linux tree, the rate of change sort of indicates that.  I suspect 

The primary limit on the rate of change is the rate at which Linus merges
stuff, nothing else.

> is happening in the Linux/PPC development nor the MySQL development.
> They have merge conflicts all the time and we have years of data to prove

For the ppc folks I guess because they are keeping a parallel tree. Thats a 
totally different animal because you collide continually with things you've
submitted and changes in the core tree.

Alan
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