Re: openbkweb-0.0

John Bradford
2003-02-15T22:33:40Z

> > I always thought that that is what the bk-commit mailing lists were
> > for? I could be wrong about that, not having used BitKeeper - if so,
> > what are they for, and would it not be possible to simply have a
> > mailing list which got sent a diff every time Linus' updated his tree?
>
> The latest diff against the last-released kernel is always available
> at http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.5/testing/cset/
>
> "Gzipped full patch from ..."

So it's perfectly possible to poll
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.5/testing/cset/ every half
hour or so, run it through:

/HREF="(.*)">Gzippped full patch/

retrieve $1, download it, then gzip -dc /tmp/latest_changeset.gz patch
-p1

John.