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From: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
To: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>,
	Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@caldera.de>,
	hpa@kernel.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.4 bitkeeper repository
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 17:58:38 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020222175838.G11156@work.bitmover.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020222173222.E11156@work.bitmover.com> <Pine.LNX.4.44.0202221744290.1484-100000@blue1.dev.mcafeelabs.com>
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

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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Larry McVoy            	 lm at bitmover.com           http://www.bitmover.com/lm 

      reply	other threads:[~2002-02-23  1:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-22 15:06 Linux 2.4 bitkeeper repository Christoph Hellwig
2002-02-22 15:13 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-22 15:26   ` DevilKin
2002-02-22 15:40     ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-22 15:44     ` Stelian Pop
2002-02-22 16:36   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2002-02-22 18:42     ` Larry McVoy
2002-02-22 19:37       ` Rik van Riel
2002-02-22 19:45         ` Larry McVoy
2002-02-23 19:40           ` Linus Torvalds
2002-02-22 16:53 ` Larry McVoy
2002-02-22 19:26 ` Rik van Riel
2002-02-22 19:37   ` Tom Rini
2002-02-22 19:49     ` Rik van Riel
2002-02-23  0:35       ` Tom Rini
2002-02-23  1:32         ` Larry McVoy
2002-02-23  1:46           ` Davide Libenzi
2002-02-23  1:58             ` Larry McVoy [this message]

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