Re: RFC - tarball/patch server in BitKeeper

Larry McVoy
2003-12-14T23:43:51Z

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.
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