From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 11:17:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 11:17:41 -0400 Received: from cpe-24-221-152-185.az.sprintbbd.net ([24.221.152.185]:63995 "EHLO opus.bloom.county") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 11:17:40 -0400 Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 08:20:31 -0700 From: Tom Rini To: Andreas Schuldei Cc: Christoph Hellwig , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: using bitkeeper to backport subsystems? Message-ID: <20020722152031.GB692@opus.bloom.county> References: <20020721233410.GA21907@lukas> <20020722071510.GG16559@boardwalk> <20020722102930.A14802@lst.de> <20020722102705.GB21907@lukas> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020722102705.GB21907@lukas> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 12:27:05PM +0200, Andreas Schuldei wrote: > * Christoph Hellwig (hch@lst.de) [020722 10:29]: > > On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 01:15:10AM -0600, Val Henson wrote: > > > Sigh. I hate this question: "How will BitKeeper make it easier to > > > port something between 2.4 and 2.5?" Answer: "Bk won't help - at > > > least not as much as it would help if 2.5 had been cloned from 2.4." > > > > 2.5 _is_ cloned from 2.4.. > > can one make use of that somehow? Possibly, once bitkeeper allowes ChangeSets to only depend on what they actually need, not every previous ChangeSet in the repository. IIRC, this was one of the things Linus asked for, so hopefully it will happen. -- Tom Rini (TR1265) http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/