Re: Bitkeeper change granularity (was Re: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin)

From: Charles Cazabon (linux-kernel@discworld.dyndns.org)
Date: Fri Feb 01 2002 - 20:19:28 EST

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Rob Landley <landley@trommello.org> wrote:
>
> The problem is, if they use bitkeeper (with a temporary respository), all
> these temporary commits (debugging tries saved in case they want to roll back
> during development) get propagated into the main repository when they do a
> merge. They can't tell it "done, okay, squash this into one atomic change to
> check in somewhere else, with the whole change history as maybe one comment".

Something like:

  bk start-temporary-fork
  [hack hack hack]
  bk commit
  [hack hack hack]
  bk revert
  [hack hack hack]
  bk commit
  [hack hack hack]
  bk commit
  bk fold-back-into-main-tree-as-one-atomic-update

Charles

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