Re: [offtopic] BitKeeper & distributions, please read

Larry McVoy (lm@bitmover.com)
Sun, 04 Oct 1998 12:43:10 -0600


: > Thoughts?
:
: Why do you need to link programs with it. Can you not do this with libvfs
: preloaded ? I'm also curious what the atomicity/permissions/security issues
: involved with this may be.

Revision control doesn't map nicely onto a VFS. At least I don't think so.
But if it could, I have no problem doing it that way, sounds fine.

As to the other issues, sure there are always issues. I'm not sure how it
will all play out, though I suspect that you want to make a special version
of mkpatch(1) that knows that it isn't supposed to ship the passwd file
around and that flags hostname/IP address issues.

If your point is "there are issues", yup. If your point is "I don't
like it until all the issues are resolved" that's not helpful. Maybe you
should think about what the issues are and suggest solutions.

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