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From: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
Cc: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Problems using new Linux-2.4 bitkeeper repository.
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 09:14:52 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020316091452.E10086@work.bitmover.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200203161608.g2GG8WC05423@localhost.localdomain> <3C9372BE.4000808@mandrakesoft.com> <20020316083059.A10086@work.bitmover.com> <3C9375B7.3070808@mandrakesoft.com> <20020316085213.B10086@work.bitmover.com> <3C937B82.60500@mandrakesoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <3C937B82.60500@mandrakesoft.com>; from jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com on Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 12:06:10PM -0500

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

  reply	other threads:[~2002-03-16 17:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-03-15  2:38 Problems using new Linux-2.4 bitkeeper repository James Bottomley
2002-03-15  4:55 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-03-16 16:08   ` James Bottomley
2002-03-16 16:28     ` Jeff Garzik
2002-03-16 16:30       ` Larry McVoy
2002-03-16 16:41         ` Jeff Garzik
2002-03-16 16:52           ` Larry McVoy
2002-03-16 17:06             ` Jeff Garzik
2002-03-16 17:14               ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2002-03-16 17:25                 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-03-16 17:38                   ` Larry McVoy
2002-03-16 17:51                     ` Jeff Garzik
2002-03-16 18:31                       ` Christer Weinigel
2002-03-16 18:05                     ` Jeff Garzik
2002-03-16 19:01                       ` Larry McVoy
2002-03-16 19:44                         ` Jeff Garzik
2002-03-17 10:49                 ` David Woodhouse
2002-03-17 15:54                   ` Larry McVoy
2002-03-17 16:23                   ` David Woodhouse
2002-03-17 18:15                     ` Larry McVoy
2002-03-17 18:34                     ` David Woodhouse
2002-03-18 15:25                       ` Tom Rini
2002-03-16 17:17             ` James Bottomley

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