On Sun, 30 Oct 2005, Rob Landley wrote:
>
> I know there isn't an absolute or stable ordering, but can't a temporary
> ordering be exported?
Not generally, no. And definitely not easily.
> I was under the impression that the bk->cvs gateway squashed changes into a
> sort of order, way back when.
I have to say that the bk->cvs gateway is actually a very impressive
linearization, and I don't even know how it did it. But even that one
wasn't perfect - occasionally it ended up with big patches for merges.
Using "git bisect" to generate successive bisections (and then building up
a linearization patch from that) would work, but it would result in some
_really_ strange things: it would basically have one patch do one thing,
then the next patch might _undo_ that, and do another, and then the third
patch would re-do it and do them both together.
And that's really sometimes the best linearization you can do. But that's
just too strange and confusing, I think. And the patches would be horribly
inefficient.
At that point I'd rather teach people to use "git bisect" natively. It
wouldn't be any less confusing than the patches ;)
Linus
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