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From: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
To: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
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Subject: Re: Linux 2.4 bitkeeper repository
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0202221744290.1484-100000@blue1.dev.mcafeelabs.com>; from davidel@xmailserver.org on Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 05:46:54PM -0800
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On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 05:46:54PM -0800, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> Larry, i've a question for you.
> Does BK use the same basic algos of diff+patch ?

Absolutely not.

> Or, if CVS fails a merge, what is the probability that BK will succeed on
> the same op ?

About 95% in our source base.  You can actually run a script over the
tree, and retry all the merges with the CVS alg and the BK alg.  The BK
alg automerges about 95% of the ones where CVS would not (could not).

These results are typical, in fact, the percentages go up as the number
of parallel developers go up.
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