Re: BitBucket: GPL-ed *notrademarkhere* clone

Larry McVoy
2003-03-03T23:54:52Z

On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 07:02:28PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> David Lang wrote:
> >On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Just curious, this also means that at least around the 80% of merges
> >>in Linus's tree is submitted via a bitkeeper pull, right?
> >>
> >>Andrea
> >
> >
> >remember how Linus works, all normal patches get copied into a single
> >large patch file as he reads his mail then he runs patch to apply them to
> >the tree. I think this would make the entire batch of messages look like
> >one cset.
>
>
> Not correct. His commits properly separate the patches out into
> individual csets.

And we've written code which finds the longest path through the graph
to get the finest granularity; when run on his tree we get 8138 nodes.
That is 43% of the 18837 nodes possible. The trunk only includes
1068 nodes. So we can a very good job exporting to CVS.
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