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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com.br>,
	Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
Subject: Re: log-buf-len dynamic
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 18:31:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030925183149.A19774@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1n0csiybu.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>; from ebiederm@xmission.com on Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 11:15:33AM -0600

On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 11:15:33AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> And for the core kernel development this is true.  There are subprojects
> that are currently using BK that you can't even get the code without
> BK.  And the only reason they are using BK is they are attempting to
> following how Linux is managed.  So having the Linux kernel
> development use BK does have some down sides.

Stupid argument.  E.g. the ppc folks used BK much longer than Linus.
And there are kernel projects using svn (ieee1394) or cvs that you
can't access without installing svn or cvs.

> In addition there are some major gains to be had in standardizing on a
> distributed version control system that everyone can use, and
> unfortunately BK does not fill that position.  So I think it is good
> that there is enough general discontent it the air that people
> continue to look for alternatives. 

Why should we standardize on one SCM?  That's like we standadize
on Windows for all computers..


  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-09-25 17:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 97+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20030923142706.54b2428a.davem@redhat.com>
2003-09-23 21:53 ` log-buf-len dynamic Linus Torvalds
2003-09-23 22:15   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-09-23 22:54     ` Linus Torvalds
2003-09-24  0:36       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-09-24  1:19         ` Larry McVoy
2003-09-24  2:04           ` andrea
2003-09-24  2:29             ` Larry McVoy
2003-09-24  2:39               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-09-24  3:16                 ` Larry McVoy
2003-09-24  3:31                   ` Rik van Riel
2003-09-24  3:45                     ` Larry McVoy
2003-09-24  3:54                       ` Linus Torvalds
2003-09-24  4:12                         ` Rik van Riel
2003-09-24 21:11                           ` yodaiken
2003-09-24 13:09                       ` Alan Cox
2003-09-24 18:56                         ` Jörn Engel
2003-09-24  3:46                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-09-24  4:02                     ` Larry McVoy
2003-09-24  4:06                     ` Rik van Riel
2003-09-24  2:36             ` Linus Torvalds
2003-09-24  2:48               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-09-24  3:06                 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-09-24  3:28                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-09-24  3:38                     ` Linus Torvalds
2003-09-24  3:56                       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-09-24  4:26                         ` viro
2003-09-24  3:42                     ` Rik van Riel
2003-09-24  3:11                 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-24 14:43               ` Roman Zippel
2003-09-25  4:08                 ` Miles Bader
2003-09-25  4:20                   ` Nick Piggin
2003-09-25 17:15               ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-09-25 17:30                 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-09-25 17:57                   ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-25 18:22                   ` Jörn Engel
2003-09-25 18:33                     ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-09-25 18:36                     ` Larry McVoy
2003-09-25 19:02                       ` Jörn Engel
2003-09-25 19:41                         ` OT go to gnu-arch-users for these matters (Re: log-buf-len dynamic) Andrea Arcangeli
2003-09-25 18:28                   ` log-buf-len dynamic Charles Cazabon
2003-09-25 18:29                     ` Larry McVoy
2003-09-25 20:15                       ` David Lang
2003-09-25 20:27                         ` Larry McVoy
2003-09-29  8:56                       ` Rob Landley
2003-09-29 11:24                         ` John Bradford
2003-09-29 12:30                           ` Rob Landley
2003-09-29 15:22                             ` John Bradford
2003-09-29 13:20                           ` Rik van Riel
2003-09-29 13:23                           ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-09-29 15:03                             ` Larry McVoy
2003-09-29 18:21                           ` Hua Zhong
2003-09-29 15:07                         ` Larry McVoy
2003-09-25 19:23                   ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-09-25 17:31                 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2003-09-25 19:28                   ` Erik Andersen
2003-09-25 17:36                 ` Dave Jones
2003-09-25 18:34                   ` Larry McVoy
2003-09-25 18:35                   ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-09-25 18:49                 ` Larry McVoy
2003-09-25 20:02                   ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-09-25 23:36                   ` Pau Aliagas
2003-09-26  2:25                 ` Miles Bader
2003-09-26  4:38                   ` Davide Libenzi
2003-09-26 17:09                 ` John Goerzen
2003-09-24  7:56       ` Pau Aliagas
2003-09-26 13:24 Samium Gromoff
2003-09-26 14:49 ` viro
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-09-25 19:43 Mudama, Eric
2003-09-24 17:39 Ken Ryan
2003-09-22 19:48 Andrea Arcangeli
2003-09-23  1:51 ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-09-23 21:08   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-09-23  4:28 ` Willy Tarreau
2003-09-23 12:49   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-09-23 14:06     ` Willy Tarreau
2003-09-23 14:44       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-09-23 15:01         ` Jan Evert van Grootheest
2003-09-23 15:41           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-09-23 16:09             ` Willy Tarreau
2003-09-23 16:26               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-09-23 16:56             ` Ruth Ivimey-Cook
2003-09-23 17:40               ` Tom Zanussi
2003-09-23 17:53                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-09-23 21:37                   ` Andrew Morton
2003-09-23 22:22                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-09-24  0:15                       ` Andrew Morton
2003-09-24  0:38                         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-09-23 16:06           ` Willy Tarreau
2003-09-23 16:23             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-09-23 19:02               ` Willy Tarreau
2003-09-23 22:34                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-09-23 23:29                   ` Willy Tarreau
2003-09-23 23:48                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-09-23 23:50                       ` Willy Tarreau
2003-09-23 12:46 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-09-25 13:40 ` marcelo
2003-09-26 20:26   ` Andrea Arcangeli

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