* Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:

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> On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 01:01:13PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >    ( Also, it's a GPL nitpicky issue: the conflict resolution database 
> >      can be argued to be part of "source code" and as such it should be 
> >      shared with everyone who asks. With trivial merges the data is
> >      probably not copyrightable hence probably falls outside the scope 
> >      of the GPL, but with a complex topic tree like -tip with dozens of 
> >      conflict resolutions, the boundary is perhaps more blurred. )
> 
> For a more complex merge resolution, granted that it rises to the 
> level of being "copyrightable", but I think it would be a huge stretch 
> to call the rr-cache the "preferred form for modifications"!  :-)

yeah - i'm not really arguing any detail of the GPL here. I'm arguing 
the principle: there should be no technical assymetry between maintainer 
and contributor. So if i am able to run an effort-free integration of 85 
topic branches, i'd like contributors (who will eventually grow up into 
co-maintainer roles in the future) to be able to do the same, if they 
want to do so.

right now that is simply not possible technically - it's even very hard 
to share a .git/rr-cache with a co-maintainer whom i can trust with my 
index file. (which is an otherwise unsafe private binary cache that i'd 
not put into a public repository as it could in theory contain lots of 
unrelated data and is not endian-safe, etc.)

	Ingo
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