From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262784AbTLNXnv (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Dec 2003 18:43:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262787AbTLNXnv (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Dec 2003 18:43:51 -0500 Received: from ipcop.bitmover.com ([192.132.92.15]:54442 "EHLO work.bitmover.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262784AbTLNXnu (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Dec 2003 18:43:50 -0500 Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 15:43:49 -0800 From: Larry McVoy To: Tupshin Harper Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: RFC - tarball/patch server in BitKeeper Message-ID: <20031214234348.GA15850@work.bitmover.com> Mail-Followup-To: Larry McVoy , Tupshin Harper , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20031214172156.GA16554@work.bitmover.com> <3FDCEF70.5040808@tupshin.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3FDCEF70.5040808@tupshin.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 03:17:04PM -0800, Tupshin Harper wrote: > I'm sure many people will find this useful. Personally (and this is not > intended as any sort of flame bait), I just want a way to get access to > all raw bk changesets for a given project. I'm sure you do, I've read your postings on various SCM mailing lists. You'll have to get your test data elsewhere, sorry, we're not in the business of helping you develop a competing product. Using BK to do that is a violation of the free use license and I'm sure you are aware of that. > All existing methods of > getting information out of a bk repository either involve running bk > yourself, or getting incomplete information. You have argued > (succesfully) that the CVS export doesn't lose very much information, > but an argument can be made that any information loss is too much. After > all, the information I am talking about is simply what was put into the > system by the developers in the first place. Nonsense! It's the information put in there by BitKeeper. The BK2CVS export is an almost perfect mirror of what you'd get if the developers were using CVS or Subversion or whatever. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm