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Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 17:46:54 -0800 (PST)
From: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
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Subject: Re: Linux 2.4 bitkeeper repository
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On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Larry McVoy wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 05:35:13PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
> > > You forgot about setting the proper BK_USER, BK_HOST and
> > > 'bk comment' commands ;)
> >
> > heh.  Those are rather new things, aren't they? :)  Anyhow, the goal for
> > these tree(s) is to keep the PPC children trees up to date.
>
> BK_USER, BK_HOST have been around forever but their use is discouraged for
> the following reason: BK is a distributed system, we need unique names for
> things, and the user&host are part of the name we make up.
>
> bk comments is new and a darned useful thing, too, I'm glad Linus asked
> for it.  You just have to read the man page and realize that your updates
> to the comments may not propogate.

Larry, i've a question for you.
Does BK use the same basic algos of diff+patch ?
Or, if CVS fails a merge, what is the probability that BK will succeed on
the same op ?



- Davide


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