Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 29 Dec 2003 15:36:15 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.6.0 - Watchdog patches |
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Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, Wim Van Sebroeck wrote: > >>Hi Linus, Andrew, >> >>please do a >> >> bk pull http://linux-watchdog.bkbits.net/linux-2.5-watchdog > > > This tree has 38 deltas, all just merges. > > The end result is a horribly messy revision tree, for a few one-liners. > > I'm going to take the patch as a patch instead, and hope that you'll throw > your BK tree away. > > Please don't follow the release tree in your development trees, it makes > it impossible to see how the revision history happened.
Agreed. Several BK developers do this, forgetting that one of things that makes BK so useful is its merge technology.
I recommend (assuming no patches outstanding),
* clone latest tree * do development * only 'bk pull' from latest tree iff (a) you are about to submit to Linus/Andrew or (b) you know there is a conflicting change in upstream
Pulling the latest, just to be up-to-date, just obfuscates things and needlessly increases the size of the master ChangeSet file.
Jeff
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