Re: using bitkeeper to backport subsystems?

Lars Marowsky-Bree (lmb@suse.de)
Tue, 23 Jul 2002 10:16:15 +0200


On 2002-07-22T15:44:43,
Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com> said:

> > With all due respect to Larry and the bk team, I think you'll
> > find determining 'needed changesets' in this case is a _hard_ problem.
> Thanks, we agree completely. It's actually an impossible problem
> for a program since it requires semantic knowledge of the content
> under revision control.

So, another option would be to have the developer define explicit dependencies
for his changesets, but I fear that might prove to cumbersome, too.

Sincerely,
Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@suse.de>

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