From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261609AbVFTV1a (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Jun 2005 17:27:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261548AbVFTVXr (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Jun 2005 17:23:47 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:63118 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261609AbVFTVWo (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Jun 2005 17:22:44 -0400 Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 14:23:23 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Jean Delvare Cc: mchehab@brturbo.com.br, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, greg@kroah.com Subject: Re: 2.6.12-mm1 Message-Id: <20050620142323.2ed2180b.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20050620231147.7232d889.khali@linux-fr.org> References: <20050619233029.45dd66b8.akpm@osdl.org> <20050620202947.040be273.khali@linux-fr.org> <20050620134146.0e5de567.akpm@osdl.org> <20050620231147.7232d889.khali@linux-fr.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-vine-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jean Delvare wrote: > > Yup. This sort of thing often happens when teams run parallel CVS > > trees. > > I don't see how this is relevant. It's very relevant. It is a common occurence in projects which run a CVS tree. Accidental reversion of earlier work is a common outcome from the parallel-tree problem. One could go on at length as to why this mistake is so easy to make when you're using CVS, but what it boils down to is that these projects are using the wrong paradigm. They're maintaining files, whereas they should be maintaining *changes* to files.