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SubjectRe: [PATCH] 2.6.0 - Watchdog patches
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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