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Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 19:19:28 -0600
From: Charles Cazabon <linux-kernel@discworld.dyndns.org>
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Subject: Re: Bitkeeper change granularity (was Re: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin)
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Rob Landley <landley@trommello.org> wrote:
> 
> The problem is, if they use bitkeeper (with a temporary respository), all 
> these temporary commits (debugging tries saved in case they want to roll back 
> during development) get propagated into the main repository when they do a 
> merge.  They can't tell it "done, okay, squash this into one atomic change to 
> check in somewhere else, with the whole change history as maybe one comment".

Something like:

  bk start-temporary-fork
  [hack hack hack]
  bk commit
  [hack hack hack]
  bk revert 
  [hack hack hack]
  bk commit 
  [hack hack hack]
  bk commit
  bk fold-back-into-main-tree-as-one-atomic-update

?

Charles
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