Re: Changelogs on kernel.org

David Woodhouse
2002-05-15T20:03:45Z

lm@bitmover.com said:
> FYI, if they do a
> bk send -ubk://linux.bkbits.net/linux-2.5 torvalds@transmeta.com
> that problem goes away. The -u<url> stuff does the same sort of
> handshake that a pull does to figure out what needs to be sent to fill
> in the holes.

Not quite. The sender usually omits changesets for a _reason_. You'll often
find that one of the changesets in the middle wasn't necessary and didn't
touch any of the same files -- in which case patches would have applied
just fine.

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dwmw2