From: David Eger <eger@havoc.gtf.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>,
jdike@addtoit.com, blaisorblade_spam@yahoo.it,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Inclusion of UML in 2.6.8
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 17:18:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040628211801.GA7824@havoc.gtf.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040626234025.7d69937c.akpm@osdl.org>
On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 11:40:25PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> > But work in progress, for which oneself is still the primary source, is
> > fluid. You can slice and dice and redo it, and indeed you want to, to
> > get the best patch set. Quilt and friends rule for this stuff.
>
> Good description, that. quilt is a grown-up version of patch-scripts, and
> is tailored to what I do, and to what distributors do: maintain a series of
> diffs against a monolithic tree which someone else maintains.
>
> > Conclusion - use Quilt (with your favorite personal version control) on
> > top of Bitkeeper.
>
> yup. I use patch-scripts+CVS in the way which you describe.
I had been wondering how you deal with so many patches...
So do people actually use bitKeeper for more than the following:
(1) glorified 'cp -r'
(2) memory of the history of the tree from which we did a 'cp -r'
-dte
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-28 21:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-26 17:05 BlaisorBlade
2004-06-26 18:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-27 3:53 ` Jeff Dike
2004-06-27 13:57 ` Rik van Riel
2004-06-28 10:55 ` Arnd Bergmann
2004-06-29 19:29 ` Uploaded Uml patchset for 2.6.7(was: Re: Inclusion of UML in 2.6.8) BlaisorBlade
2004-07-03 18:25 ` [uml-devel] " BlaisorBlade
2004-06-26 20:09 ` Inclusion of UML in 2.6.8 Andrew Morton
2004-06-27 3:59 ` Jeff Dike
2004-06-27 6:32 ` Paul Jackson
2004-06-27 6:40 ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-27 8:08 ` Paul Jackson
2004-06-27 13:50 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2004-06-27 23:43 ` Paul Jackson
2004-06-28 21:18 ` David Eger [this message]
2004-06-27 8:53 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
[not found] ` <20040628181134.GA21360@havoc.gtf.org>
[not found] ` <Pine.GSO.4.58.0407201754460.23496@waterleaf.sonytel.be>
2004-07-22 13:09 ` [PATCH] cirrusfb: update for amiga (zorro) David Eger
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