Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Mar 2002 09:12:31 -0800 (PST) | From | "Randy.Dunlap" <> | Subject | Re: Kernel SCM: When does CVS fall down where it REALLY matters? |
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On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Larry McVoy wrote:
| On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 08:59:47PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: | > 3) graphical 2-way merging tool like bitkeeper has | > (this might not seem essential to people who have | > never used it, but it has saved me many many hours) | | I haven't verified this, but I suspect what Rik is using is the 3-way | file merge. If it looks like | | http://www.bitkeeper.com/newmerge.gif | | that's a 3 way file merge, the 2 big side by side windows are showing | you 3 diffs, the diff from the ancestor to the local version in the left | window, the diff from the ancestor to the remote version in the right | window, and then side by side diffs in that they are lined up. | | If Rik is using the 2 way file merge and likes that, he's in for a quantum | leap in productivity, commercial customers have reported as much as an | 18:1 productivity increase from the 3 way file merge.
Just curious, how is this productivity increase measured?
Thanks, -- ~Randy
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