Re: [ANNOUNCE] BK->CVS (real time mirror)

Larry McVoy
2003-03-12T21:23:19Z

On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 04:31:08PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 01:18:32PM -0800, Larry McVoy wrote:
> > > Larry, this brings up something I was meaning to ask you before this
> > > thread exploded. What happens to those "logical change" numbers over
> > > time?
> >
> > They are stable in the CVS tree because the CVS tree isn't distributed.
> > So "Logical change 1.900" in the context of the exported CVS tree is
> > always the same thing. That's one advantage centralized has, things
> > don't shift around on you.
>
> OK, so the logical change numbers there are only related to the CVS
> tree, not related to revision numbers in the BK tree being converted?

Correct. The BK revs are in there though, that's what

BKrev: <long string of bits>

is in the change log.

> That makes more sense, thank you.

Hey cool, you're welcome!
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