Re: Inclusion of UML in 2.6.8

From: David Eger (eger_at_havoc.gtf.org)
Date: 06/28/04

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    Date:	Mon, 28 Jun 2004 17:18:01 -0400
    To: Andrew Morton <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
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