Re: using bitkeeper to backport subsystems?

[Andreas Schuldei <andreas@schuldei.org>]

* Larry McVoy (lm@bitmover.com) [020722 17:26]:
> On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 12:29:05PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 12:27:05PM +0200, Andreas Schuldei wrote:
> > > * Christoph Hellwig (hch@lst.de) [020722 10:29]:
> > > > On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 01:15:10AM -0600, Val Henson wrote:
> > > > > Sigh.  I hate this question: "How will BitKeeper make it easier to
> > > > > port something between 2.4 and 2.5?"  Answer: "Bk won't help - at
> > > > > least not as much as it would help if 2.5 had been cloned from 2.4."
> > > > 
> > > > 2.5 _is_ cloned from 2.4..
> > > 
> > > can one make use of that somehow?
> > 
> > /me ain't no bk guru.
> > 
> > but I'd be interested in that, too.
> 
> I'll try and write up how to do the backport thing later today (after
> I have some coffee) but I wanted to answer this one.

did you have coffee yet? i would really value your opinion of how
to procede best. i do not expect bitkeeper to do the work on its
own. I just hope to find a easy way to do the work repetitivly.