Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

Dmitry Torokhov
2005-02-10T19:50:52Z

On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 20:23:19 +0100, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 10:42:15AM -0600, Steve Lee wrote:
>
> > Roman, besides BK being closed source, how exactly is it lacking for
> > your needs? If what it lacks is a good idea and helps many, Larry and
> > crew might be willing to add whatever it is you need.
>
> A feature I lack is 'floating changesets', that would keep always at the
> top of the history, rediffed, remerged and updated as other changesets
> come in.
>
> I know quilt can do it, but quilt can't do other things I like on bk.
>

I have switched from BK to BK + quilt - I use BK to do pull from
various trees and merge it all together and then quilt to drop my
work-in-progress on top and refresh (rediff) so there are no offests.

So far it is very handy

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Dmitry