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Gerhard, > Also, what if at the time of the merge of bugid 2 the work on bugid 3 was > not yet completed and in the end depends on a revision "1.8 Bug 3"? The > merge of bugid 2 includes then some incomplete and possibly only half > working bugid 3. How do you deal with this? The way Arthur describes > working with bugids, this must be quite normal. The choice to use an "unreserved" CM process guarentees this (with or without using bug ids). If there are business drivers that require avoiding this then this is a perfect illustration of when "unreserved" is not suitable. In reality there are only a couple of situations that this really does occur. eg: a customer of ours is implementing CVS Suite specifically because their customers are switching to a competing software product because they currently have to deliver their patches in "bundles" and the competitor will deliver patches individually. The customers find that the patch bundles requires "too much" retesting/revalidating for them when they only want one or two of the patches for themselves. Since customers are leaving this has board level visibility and the additional costs of producing the bug fixes when the work must be serialised in a "reserved" process is considerably less cost than that of losing customers it's a no brainer for them... Regards, Arthur