Re: [ANNOUNCE] BK->CVS (real time mirror)

Andrea Arcangeli
2003-03-21T17:32:30Z

On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 06:16:20AM -0800, Larry McVoy wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 11:08:30PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> > > Actually, fact that "longest path" algorithm may well choose
> > > non-mainline branch because it likes it more worries me a bit.
> >
> > AFIK it's supposed to be the "longest path" of Linus's and Marcelo's
> > branches which means it'll reproduce all the modifcations of the
> > mainline trees only.
>
> By the way, we've been incrementally updating both trees and while in
> theory the incremental could result in shorter paths with less detail,
> so far the incremental export and the one pass export result in exactly
> the same path:
>
> slovax $ bk _eventpath 1.0 + | wc -l
> 8498
> slovax $ cd ../linux-2.5-cvs/linux-2.5
> slovax $ rlog -r -N ChangeSet | grep revision
> revision 1.8498
>
> I've actually reimported the data in one pass and diffed the RCS files,
> it's the same.
>
> HPA, should we be mirroring the CVS tarballs to kernel.org?

fine thanks!

BTW, CVS kernel + cvsps is just been extremely useful to me so far.

I also run into some huge patches like PatchSet 4711 in the 2.5 tree
that I would love if it could be splitted properly but I understand it's
impossible, right?

Thank you very much again for this great open service!

Andrea