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From: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
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On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 12:06:10PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> This was just an example of a real world example that actually happened, 
> where BK sucked ass :)

Think file systems.  Think 2 file systems.  Think creating duplicate inodes
in the same place.  Now those 2 file systems are merged into a third, the
duplicates removed.  The original 2 still both exist and are both being
updated.  

> Marcelo's BK tree did not exist when I created my marcelo-2.4 tree. 
>  marcelo-2.4 repo existed for a while and people started using it.  Once 
> Marcelo appeared with his "official" BK tree, people naturally want to 
> migrate.  There were two migration paths: (1) export everything to GNU 
> patches, or (2) click the mouse 300 times.

There is a 3rd:  factor out the duplicates and and export/import only the
ones that Marcelo didn't have, then dump your tree and use his.
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Larry McVoy            	 lm at bitmover.com           http://www.bitmover.com/lm 
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