Re: How to cope with patches sanely
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- Subject: Re: How to cope with patches sanely
- From: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
- Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 00:40:47 -0600
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- In-reply-to: <4F6C5F0620%linux@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk> (Darren Salt's message of "Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:05:32 +0000")
- References: <20080124084047.GA2868@piper.oerlikon.madduck.net> <87fxwmiuj3.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> <alpine.DEB.1.00.0801250818360.5187@wr-linux02> <20080125085900.GB28090@artemis.madism.org> <4F6C5F0620%linux@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk>
On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:05:32 +0000, Darren Salt
<linux@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk> said:
> Whatever DSCM is used, it needs history truncation.
Umm. Why would any distributed version control system always
need history truncation? I am not even sure that arch has such a
thing; and I have never felt the need for such a beast.
A distributed VCS that bundles in the whole archive in every
checkout might well need that, but not all distributed VCS systems do
that.
manoj
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