Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: cscvs--experimental--1.1 nearing doneness; call for testers

[Charles Duffy]

On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 13:48, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> NOTE: the bkcvs is really a cheating a bit, since all big merges from
> other trees showup as a single patchset due the linearization of the
> tree, real life linux with arch replacing bitkeeper would involve lots
> more patchsets than what you can find now in bkcvs

I'm not sure on which side bkcvs is really "cheating" -- because of it
doing arbitrary log message changes and such, repository conversion is
likely to have far *more* changesets when coming from a bkcvs repository
as opposed to a "real" CVS repository.

I'll grant that most merges will probably come from a source with more
than 3 log entries applied -- but be sure to divide
(expected_average_number_of_log_entries) by 3 when attempting to
determine the magnitude of the difference.