Re: BitBucket: GPL-ed KitBeeper clone

Horst von Brand
2003-03-13T12:43:13Z

Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de> said:

[...]

> For dependencies between changes, rather than any fixed ordering, it's better
> to record the actual precedence information, i.e., "a before b", where a and
> b are id numbers of changes (I think everybody agrees changes are first class
> objects). These precedence relations can be determined automatically: if two
> changes do not occur in the same file, there is no certainly no precedence
> relation.

Wrong. Edit a header adding a new type T. Later change an existing file
that already includes said header to use T. Change a function, fix most
uses. Find a wrong usage later and fix it separately. Change something, fix
its Documentation/ later. Note how you can come up with dependent changes
that _can't_ be detected automatically.
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