Re: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin

Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Wed, 30 Jan 2002 14:47:26 -0200 (BRST)

On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Larry McVoy wrote:
>
> > How much of the out order stuff goes away if you could send changes
> > out of order as long as they did not overlap (touch the same files)?
>
> could this be made: 'as long as they do not touch the same lines of
> code, taking 3 lines of context into account'? (ie. unified diff
> definition of 'collisions' context.)

That would be _wonderful_ and fix the last bitkeeper
problem I'm having once in a while.

cheers,

Rik

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