Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 14 Nov 2003 22:51:23 +0100 | From | Jan-Benedict Glaw <> | Subject | Re: kernel.bkbits.net off the air |
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On Fri, 2003-11-14 10:56:56 +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote in message <Pine.GSO.4.21.0311141051440.2853-100000@waterleaf.sonytel.be>: > On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Tupshin Harper wrote: > > Davide Libenzi wrote: > > As one of the six, I would happily 2nd the shutting down of the > > pserver...rsync is fine with me. I would actually prefer no CVS archive > > at all as long as the raw changesets were rsyncable...then the community > > would be responsible for doing something useful with them instead of BM. > > Just wondering: the emails sent to the bk-commits mailing lists are just all > changesets in a `neutral' format that contains all meta information, right?
These changesets represent what someone "submitted". You can't expect these to apply cleanly. I've tried once, it will not work.
> So if all individual mails were archived somewhere with correct sequence > numbers, they could be used to recreate the whole repository in whatever format > you want. I guess it's just a matter of importing them like patches into arch.
Nope. You'll have to heal with conflicts first.
MfG, JBG
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