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Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 19:51:19 +0100 (CET)
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Subject: Re: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin
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On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Rik van Riel wrote:

> On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> > 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.)
>
> That would be _wonderful_ and fix the last bitkeeper problem I'm
> having once in a while.

perhaps there should also be some sort of authority needed to allow such
'violation' of current BK rules: while the patches to conflict in terms of
source code file, we can override it and tell it that they really dont
conflict.

	Ingo

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