Re: Linux 2.4 and BitKeeper

Alex Riesen
2002-03-14T07:55:37Z

Just tried it:
$ bk clone -rv2.4.18-pre8 linux-2.5 linux-2.4
remote: ERROR-rev v2.4.18-pre8 doesn't exist

no, that's not a problem for me
-alex

On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 10:42:55PM -0800, Larry McVoy wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 11:33:27PM -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
> > Can you plz tell me (us) what the bk clone command is?
> >
> > I tried:
> >
> > bk clone bk://linux24.bkbits.net//linux-2.4
> >
> > and
> >
> > bk clone bk://linux24.bkbits.net///linux-2.4
>
> Hi, Linus & Marcelo agreed that the right place for this is
>
> bk://linux.bkbits.net/linux-2.4
>
> and I just put it there, let me know if that doesn't work.
>
> Also, if you have a linux-2.5 BK tree, you can save yourself a lot of
> bandwidth by doing the following:
>
> bk clone -rv2.4.18-pre8 linux-2.5 linux-2.4
> cd linux-2.4
> bk parent bk://linux.bkbits.net/linux-2.4
> bk pull
>
> That will get you back to the baseline you should already have and
> then just update your tree with what Marcelo added recently.
>
> You don't have to do that, and for those of you with fast DSL lines you
> can skip, I don't care, but if you are trying to get a 2.4 tree over a
> modem, this is much much faster.
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