From: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Why not an arch mirror for the kernel?
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 08:15:56 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020307081556.E26028@work.bitmover.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200203071425.GAA06679@morrowfield.home> <20020306190419.E31751@work.bitmover.com> <20020306225652.Q1682@altus.drgw.net> <20020306213238.D3240@work.bitmover.com> <20020307100915.GA1158@mentor.odyssey.cs.cmu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20020307100915.GA1158@mentor.odyssey.cs.cmu.edu>; from jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu on Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 05:09:15AM -0500
On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 05:09:15AM -0500, Jan Harkes wrote:
> Additional metadata can be stored as comments. i.e. given the right
> tools anything that goes from a BK patchset into $SCM can be turned back
> into a BK patchset later on. Same holds for the other direction as long
> as the comments are preserved.
That's where we disagree. I would encourage you to try it and learn for
yourself that diff&patch != BK. I can say that it won't work and you
simply won't believe me. Please, go try it, you'll see what I mean.
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Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-03-07 16:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-07 14:25 Why not an arch mirror for the kernel? Tom Lord
2002-03-07 3:04 ` Larry McVoy
2002-03-07 4:56 ` Troy Benjegerdes
2002-03-07 5:32 ` Larry McVoy
2002-03-07 10:09 ` Jan Harkes
2002-03-07 16:15 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2002-03-07 16:02 ` Troy Benjegerdes
2002-03-07 17:12 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2002-03-07 21:47 ` Tom Lord
2002-03-07 16:00 ` Larry McVoy
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