Re: BK, deltas, snapshots and fate of -pre...

Larry McVoy
2002-04-21T18:27:58Z

On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 02:24:47PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 11:14:50AM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 02:07:53PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > > Triggers are completely useless for "show me what the next-to-last
> > > 'bk pull' downloaded, in GNU patch style."
>
> > All you need to do is save the starting and ending cset revs as keys,
> > and then send those into bk export -tpatch. So a trigger which saved
> > top of trunk on a stack is all you need, the rest is a tiny amount of
> > perl/shell. Write it, send it to me, if people like it, we'll roll it
> > into the mainline release.
>
> In order to implement multiple 'bk undo' stack as you described, you
> need to store or deduce that info anyway. If I wrote it, wouldn't I be
> duplicating work (or doing work for you)?

Perhaps. You'd also be getting your needs met on your schedule, not mine.
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