On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Larry McVoy wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 05:35:13PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
> > > You forgot about setting the proper BK_USER, BK_HOST and
> > > 'bk comment' commands ;)
> >
> > heh. Those are rather new things, aren't they? :) Anyhow, the goal for
> > these tree(s) is to keep the PPC children trees up to date.
>
> BK_USER, BK_HOST have been around forever but their use is discouraged for
> the following reason: BK is a distributed system, we need unique names for
> things, and the user&host are part of the name we make up.
>
> bk comments is new and a darned useful thing, too, I'm glad Linus asked
> for it. You just have to read the man page and realize that your updates
> to the comments may not propogate.
Larry, i've a question for you.
Does BK use the same basic algos of diff+patch ?
Or, if CVS fails a merge, what is the probability that BK will succeed on
the same op ?
- Davide
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