Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Linus Torvalds <address@hidden> Re: log-buf-len dynamic

[Bruce Stephens]

Tom Lord <address@hidden> writes:

>     > From: Miles Bader <address@hidden>
>
>     > On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 05:46:15PM +0100, Paul Hedderly wrote:
>     > > but also looks for files that have been renamed, _and_ changed.
>
>     > tla-update-ids does this too, but only in the context of a project tree 
> of
>     > course.
>
>     > [I'm not sure about BK's `renametool'; I _think_ it just gives you a 
> menu of
>     > old/new files and relies on a human operator to tell it which files 
> should be
>     > matched]
>
> Isn't that impossible?  That suggests a way in which arch and tools
> built on top of arch are _ahead_ of BK.  But the self-proclaimed
> leading expert in the field, LM, has assured us that arch is 3-5
> years _behind_ BK.  Oh, it's all so confusing.

I presume humans only need to be involved when you're trying to import
a new tarball or something (where BitKeeper can't know how files have
been moved around).

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