Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 May 1997 10:59:53 +0300 | From | "Alexander L. Belikoff" <> | Subject | naive question: kernel CVS repository |
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Hello everybody,
I just have a naive question (no pun intended, no flame war required). Why don't us establish an "official" CVS repository for the kernel. This will allow people getting the updates automatically on a regular basis without having to fiddle with the whole kernel .tar.gz as well as with the patches (you know, sometimes you just cannot apply them cleanly, especially if you have 5-10 of them).
Also, it would allow people apply only important patches. For example, if I am waiting impatiently for a Sony CDU31 driver improvement, I can just issue 'cvs diff' for this file only and check, whether something has been changed, instead of downloading every single patch and browsing through it.
This strategy has been used by the FreeBSD community for ages (please, don't kick!!!) and IMHO, seems to be a very advanced and easy to use. After all there is no bad in borrowing the best features of others' systems.
Regards,
-- -Alexander
============================================================================== Alexander L. Belikoff belikoff@netvision.net.il Berger Financial Research Ltd. =============================================================================
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