Re: Suggestion re: [PATCH] Remove Bitkeeper documentation from Linux tree

Larry McVoy
2002-04-23T15:12:41Z

On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 11:07:28AM -0400, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> My suggestion is actually a bandwidth saver, browsing it and searching
> for the text file made me download a lot of HTML I would never have
> downloaded.

No argument. However, as soon as we do the patch interface and the plain
text interface, BK can be treated as a patch server. Then we get automated
scripts slurping down the data that way.

If you're willing to use BK just as a transport, it's a far more efficient
transport. Ask people who have run rsync/ftp/bk all on the same system,
the BK way gets the same information across in less bits.

We're not going to be a patch server or a plain text server on the end of
our little T1 line. If you want us to do that, then find someone to pay
for another T1 line and I'll happily dedicate it to bkbits.net and apply
the changes you want.
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