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Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 10:16:15 +0200
From: Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de>
To: Larry McVoy <lm@work.bitmover.com>,
       Roger Gammans <roger@computer-surgery.co.uk>,
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Subject: Re: using bitkeeper to backport subsystems?
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On 2002-07-22T15:44:43,
   Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com> said:

> > With all due respect to Larry and the bk team, I think you'll
> > find determining 'needed changesets' in this case is a _hard_ problem.
> Thanks, we agree completely.  It's actually an impossible problem
> for a program since it requires semantic knowledge of the content
> under revision control. 

So, another option would be to have the developer define explicit dependencies
for his changesets, but I fear that might prove to cumbersome, too.


Sincerely,
    Lars Marowsky-Br?e <lmb@suse.de>

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