Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: bitkeeper vs tla

[Tom Lord]

    > From: Miles Bader <address@hidden>

    >   * I get the impression from lkml discussion that it has quite strict
    >     ancestry requirements for merging -- arch on the other hand allows
    >     some pretty wild & free merge styles, even on trees that have very
    >     dubious relationships.

Put differently, arch encourages a changeset orientation, including
both changeset-oriented patching and encouragement of "clean, isolated
changeset" commits.

>From this (I'm beginning to piece together from fragmentary accounts
of BK) the BK merging style arises as an important special case
(roughly, our "star-merge") -- but it is starting to sound like we hit
the more profound generalization by quite a bit.


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-t