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

Larry McVoy
2002-04-21T18:11:37Z

> That's what I meant. Email gets sent out to LKML when the patch gets sent
> to BK for approval by Linus. Another email can then be sent out (unless
> it's felt that it's too verbose to do so) when Linus accepts it into the
> tree. (unless I'm missing something about BK ;)

OK, I think you are missing some details of the workflow used to get patches
to Linus. As far as I know, he mostly pulls rather than accepts patches,
that's one of the reasons there are so many different kernel repositories
on bkbits.net. They are mostly queues of stuff waiting for Linus to pull
them.

If that is correct, then what we really want is email when something
lands on bkbits.net and is not yet included in Linus' tree. We can
certainly set up a trigger to send email in that case.
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