Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 12 Mar 2003 03:19:31 -0300 | From | Werner Almesberger <> | Subject | Re: BitBucket: GPL-ed KitBeeper clone |
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Zack Brown wrote: > Maybe the system should simply ignore the whole concept of time as occurring > in discrete ticks, and just measure time as the relative history of > changesets.
Real time is still useful, if only as a hint to users. E.g. assume that you have dependencies the SCM doesn't know about.
Example: somebody posts on linux-kernel a one-line fix for a remote root exploit. You'll instantly get dozens of people who will apply that one to their local views, without waiting or making a common unique change set.
Some of those view may have branched from a long time ago, and not have touched any common change set for months. So the partial order of applied change sets tells you very little.
Naturally, such one-line fixes will be slightly different, and eventually, some of them will merge ...
- Werner
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