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Merging

Posted May 15, 2008 13:33 UTC (Thu) by Jel (guest, #22988)
In reply to: Merging by corbet
Parent article: Distributed bug tracking

Well, one way to manage conflicts to attributes like Status would be to 
prioritise based on some combination of update time, and authority level 
of the person doing the update.  But how you manage authority/roles in a 
distributed, version-controlled bug tracker is another question.

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Merging

Posted May 15, 2008 21:53 UTC (Thu) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501) [Link]

Update time assumes you can serialize them. What if I worked in my personal branch on
something for a whole year unaware of the fact that the project has moved elsewhere?

I might have added tons of irrelevant comments and changes to bug reports.


Authority level basically assumes a centralized model.