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This paper presents an algorithm for computing a change log for an element whose history includes merges. A change log is a list of comments corresponding to versions “between” two selected versions. For example, a user may want to know what changes were made to element foo.c, between the versions labeled Release1 and Release2.
In many software configuration management (SCM) systems, brnching and merging are fundamental operations, supporting isolation and integration respectively. Unfortunately, the obvious branching and merging strategies have unpleasant consequences. This paper presents a less obvious branching and merging strategy, for parallel software development, which does not suffer these cosequences. In particular,...