Re: [PATCH] struct page, new bk tree

[Rik van Riel]

On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On Feb 19, 2002  15:57 -0800, Larry McVoy wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 08:47:17PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > > I've removed the old (broken) bitkeeper tree with the
> > > struct page changes and have put a new one in the same
> > > place ... with the struct page changes in one changeset
> > > with ready checkin comment.

> > developer goes back, cleans up the change, and repeats.  That's fine for
> > Linus & Rik because Linus tosses the changeset and Rik tosses it, but
> > what about the other people who have pulled?  Those changesets are now
> > wandering around in the network, just waiting to pop back into a tree.

> > We could have a --blacklist option to undo which says "undo these
> > changes but remember their "names" in the BitKeeper/etc/blacklist file.

> So what happens to the person who pulled the (now-blacklited) CSET in
> the first place?  If they do a pull from the repository where the original
> CSET lived, will the blacklisted CSET be undone and the replacement CSET
> be used in its place?

That's a good question.  I hadn't answered Larry before because
I just couldn't come up with what the implications of a blacklist
would be or how it would ever work ...

regards,

Rik
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