Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

Clemens Schwaighofer
2005-02-18T00:33:31Z

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On 02/17/2005 07:27 PM, Sean wrote:
> On Thu, February 17, 2005 4:27 am, Roland Kuhn said:
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>>The difference comes after the merge. Suppose Andrew didn't push
>>everything to Linus. Then new patches come in, both trees change. In
>>this situation it is very time consuming with subversion to work out
>>the changes which still have to go from Andrew's tree to Linus' tree.
>
>
> Since Andrew does this all by hand now, subversion / arch / whatever could
> only improve the situation. And the kicker is that using a free system
> would mean the result could be dumped into BK for those that want to use
> it. The reverse unfortunately isn't true; not because of technical
> reasons, but because of license restrictions.

well I think Andrew will have tonsof small helper scripts for that. I
doubt he has time to try out various vcs ... (especially if they are so
complicated to use like arch).

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