From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
To: Ed Tomlinson <tomlins@cam.org>
Cc: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>,
Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] struct page, new bk tree
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 15:26:36 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C74067C.EE824444@mandrakesoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020220201716.45A574E2E@oscar.casa.dyndns.org>
Ed Tomlinson wrote:
>
> In my opinion the idea of cset -x (while usefull) is fundamentally
> broken. The result of this is that ideas like blacklist need to be
> considered. I would propose instead an undo -x, that would
> generate a cset to reverse the one following the -x. This might
> lead to conflicts - these would be resolved the normal bk fashion.
> If bk handled ?bad? csets in this manner there would be no need for
> blacklists - it is more robust in that you can always used undo -x.
Well, if the changes are properly split up, you shouldn't need to do
this... In the ideal situation it is easiest for Linus to accept or
reject a "bk pull" in its entirety. Then he can just do a "bk unpull"
Jeff
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-20 20:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-19 23:47 Rik van Riel
2002-02-19 23:57 ` Larry McVoy
2002-02-20 19:07 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-02-20 19:27 ` Rik van Riel
2002-02-20 20:17 ` Ed Tomlinson
2002-02-20 20:26 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2002-02-20 20:31 ` Larry McVoy
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