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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

  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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