From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265110AbUEUWlD (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 May 2004 18:41:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265075AbUEUWkq (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 May 2004 18:40:46 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:38052 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265219AbUEUWd3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 May 2004 18:33:29 -0400 Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 19:14:58 -0700 From: "Randy.Dunlap" To: Ryan Anderson Cc: lm@work.bitmover.com, dbueso@linuxchile.cl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, '@ravnborg.org Subject: Re: bk repository Message-Id: <20040520191458.191496a3.rddunlap@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20040520235438.GB18544@michonline.com> References: <1085025662.1032.10.camel@offworld> <20040520073951.GA2210@mars.ravnborg.org> <20040520152543.GB10634@work.bitmover.com> <20040520235438.GB18544@michonline.com> Organization: OSDL X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.8a (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 20 May 2004 19:54:38 -0400 Ryan Anderson wrote: | On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 08:25:43AM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote: | > On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 09:39:51AM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote: | > > On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 12:01:02AM -0400, Davidlohr Bueso A wrote: | > > > When will the 2.6 branch be added to the bitkeeper resository? | > > It's alrweady there, but with a bit mis-leading name. | > > bk://linux.bkbits.net/linux-2.5 | | [...] | | > > To my knowledge there is no possibility to symlink two repositories, so | > > both names could live in parrallel for a while?? | > | > Sure there is and it's done. | > | > root@hostme:/repos/l/linux# ls -l | > total 20 | > drwxrwxr-x 17 linux 1000 4096 May 20 05:29 linux-2.4 | > drwxrwxr-x 20 linux 1000 4096 May 20 07:27 linux-2.5 | > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 May 20 08:24 linux-2.6 -> linux-2.5 | > drwxrwxr-x 20 root root 4096 May 10 17:40 lm | > drwxrwxr-x 16 linux root 4096 Apr 16 23:43 vger | > drwxrwxr-x 5 linux.ad 1000 4096 Mar 28 2002 www | | Wouldn't it make sense to avoid the need to do this in the future? | | Specifically, make a tree named "linux" available - that's always the | Linus tree. | | Create linux-2.6/2.8/3.0/3.2 etc as they are handed off to maintainers | *other* than Linus? | | Or some combination that makes sense. It just seems weird to me to need | to continually change the name of the main development tree. Continually, as in every 2-3 years? I don't see much of a problem here unless the cycle length changes. -- ~Randy