Re: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin

Daniel Phillips
2002-01-30T10:28:28Z

On January 30, 2002 10:33 am, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> In article <20020130034746.K32317@havoc.gtf.org>,
> Jeff Garzik <garzik@havoc.gtf.org> wrote:
> >
> >Instead of doing this stuff half-assed, just convince Linus to use BK :)
>
> The thing is, I actually _want_ to use BK (as opposed to CVS, which I
> really don't think cuts it).
>
> I still dislike some things (those SHOUTING SCCS files) in bk, and let's
> be honest: I've used CVS, but I've never really used BK. Larry has given
> me the demos, and I actually decided to re-do the examples, but it takes
> time and effort to get used to new tools, and I'm a bit worried that
> I'll find other things to hate than just those loud filenames.

Oh gosh, I hate those too. (Yes, this is a "me too".) Larry, could we
*please* have that metadata in a .file?

/me also detests those shouting CVS's in cvs trees and is easily put off
by such trivial things

--
Daniel