Re: Xen repository

[Andrew Thompson <xenuser@aktzero.com>]

Ian Pratt wrote:
> BK's algorithm for slecting the main branch is very 'odd' indeed, and as
> it stands we'd loose a great deal of the revision history. I reckon we
> could do a much better job of linearizing the history (possibly with a
> bit of manual intervention). 

I'm not really familiar with bitkeeper or this pick-your-patches style 
of management/merging. Is there useful documentation outside of the 
bigkeeper user guide? (googling bitkeeper gives two pages of bitkeeper 
vs linux/open source hits)

> Can anyone think of a way of getting
> bitkeeper to output the revision DAG in a parseable form? Having this
> would also make it possible to keep the branch structure while
> transfering to a tool like mercurial or cogito.

I'm not sure what DAG is, but I read a lkml posting from Linus that 
stated he had scripted a method of dumping data from BitKeeper, but 
hadn't used it because he expected it to take days to complete(to pull 
the kernel source tree).

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Andrew Thompson
http://aktzero.com/