Re: Linux 2.4 bitkeeper repository

[Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>]

On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 04:26:42PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 
> > the Linux 2.4 repository at linux.bkbbits.net is orphaned short after
> > it got created.  Ist there any chance we could see continguous checkins
> > for it?
> >
> > I think it might be a good idea to get it automatically checked in once
> > Marcelo uploads a new (pre-) patch as part of the kernel.org
> > notification procedure (is this possible, Peter?).
> >
> > If there is no way to automate it I would volunteer to do the checkins,
> > but for that I'd need write permissions to the repository.
> 
> I've got a script here which pretty much automates the
> checkins of incremental patches, it should be trivial
> for Peter to call that from his script that creates the
> incremental diffs.

If you have a pristine tree, adding incremental diffs is:
bk import -tpatch ../patch-2.4.X-preY-preZ . && bk tag v2.4.X-preZ
Which is what I do for the PPC's kernel.org-only tree(s).

Larry or Cort Dougan came up w/ a script ages ago to do it w/o
incrmenetal diffs and to make a backup as well.

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Tom Rini (TR1265)
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