Re: [PATCH] Remove Bitkeeper documentation from Linux tree

Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2002-04-21T03:43:45Z

Em Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 04:46:16AM +0100, Ian Molton escreveu:
> Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Awoke this dragon, who will now respond:
>
> > The documentation being discussed is not proprietary, it only talks about
> > a non essential proprietary tool used now by lots of kernel hackers.
>
> well, this raises an interesting point...
>
> should documentation be regarded as part of the package it documents or
> not?

yes, and this is the case :)

> is this 'bitkeeper documentation', 'documentation about bitkeeper', or
> 'linux kernel documentation', or what?

This is "how to use bitkeeper with the Linux kernel sources and to submit
patches to Linus", AFAIK...

As pointed out by Linus, in the jfs subtree there is similar docs, but using
CVS instead.

Ah, removing Linus from the CC list as he is not interested in this thread
at all :)

- Arnaldo