[dist-bugs] salutations

[Bart Trojanowski]

Sorry Joey, it's been too long since I read abut all these to remember
the internal details.

* Joey Hess <joey at kitenet.net> [080708 19:19]:
> For example, I assume most of them deal with merging diverged bug states[1]
> -- do they use close to the same techniques, or wildly different? Any
> especially good techniques? 

Merging the bug description will likely result in required user
intervention.  But changes to the description are more rare than
comments.  In git-case we decided to avoid merging issues by making
comment immutable, and form a message tree inspired by email.  In email
the relationship between comments is defined by references up to the
parent commit.  This allows us to build threaded comments, and even
import bug discussions back from a mailing list into the tracker.

-Bart

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