Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 20 May 2004 19:14:58 -0700 | From | "Randy.Dunlap" <> | Subject | Re: bk repository |
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On Thu, 20 May 2004 19:54:38 -0400 Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com> wrote:
| On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 08:25:43AM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote: | > On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 09:39:51AM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote: | > > On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 12:01:02AM -0400, Davidlohr Bueso A wrote: | > > > When will the 2.6 branch be added to the bitkeeper resository? | > > It's alrweady there, but with a bit mis-leading name. | > > bk://linux.bkbits.net/linux-2.5 | | [...] | | > > To my knowledge there is no possibility to symlink two repositories, so | > > both names could live in parrallel for a while?? | > | > Sure there is and it's done. | > | > root@hostme:/repos/l/linux# ls -l | > total 20 | > drwxrwxr-x 17 linux 1000 4096 May 20 05:29 linux-2.4 | > drwxrwxr-x 20 linux 1000 4096 May 20 07:27 linux-2.5 | > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 May 20 08:24 linux-2.6 -> linux-2.5 | > drwxrwxr-x 20 root root 4096 May 10 17:40 lm | > drwxrwxr-x 16 linux root 4096 Apr 16 23:43 vger | > drwxrwxr-x 5 linux.ad 1000 4096 Mar 28 2002 www | | Wouldn't it make sense to avoid the need to do this in the future? | | Specifically, make a tree named "linux" available - that's always the | Linus tree. | | Create linux-2.6/2.8/3.0/3.2 etc as they are handed off to maintainers | *other* than Linus? | | Or some combination that makes sense. It just seems weird to me to need | to continually change the name of the main development tree.
Continually, as in every 2-3 years? I don't see much of a problem here unless the cycle length changes.
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