From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 22 May 2002 05:43:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 22 May 2002 05:43:31 -0400 Received: from dsl-213-023-040-073.arcor-ip.net ([213.23.40.73]:11946 "EHLO starship") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 22 May 2002 05:43:30 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Daniel Phillips To: Andreas Dilger Subject: Re: Htree directory index for Ext2, updated Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 11:43:18 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] Cc: "Albert D. Cahalan" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200205170736.g4H7aNj281162@saturn.cs.uml.edu> <20020518172634.GK21295@turbolinux.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Saturday 18 May 2002 19:26, Andreas Dilger wrote: > On May 18, 2002 08:13 +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote: > > I cloned a repository that is arranged like: > > > > somedir > > | > > |--linux > > | | > > | The usual stuff > > | > > `---other things > > > > Bitkeeper wants the destination for the import to be 'somedir', and > > cannot figure out how to apply a patch that looks like: > > +++ src/include/linux/someheader.h, for instance. > > And that is bad in what way? It is bad in that there is no way to import the patch into BitKeeper. > If you try to apply that patch from > 'somedir' you expect patch/BK to have ESP to know it should apply > under 'linux'. If 'patch' will apply such a diff, then it is just > a sign of the problems you were complaining about - that it uses > heuristics to guess which file to modify, and they are not 100% right. > > Of course, if you are really talking about a patch, and not a BK > changeset, then the problem lies solely with 'patch' and 'diff' > and has nothing to do with BK at all. It looks like a hole in BitKeeper. How do you suggest I apply my perfectly normal patch? -- Daniel