Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Jun 2004 17:18:01 -0400 | From | David Eger <> | Subject | Re: Inclusion of UML in 2.6.8 |
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On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 11:40:25PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > But work in progress, for which oneself is still the primary source, is > > fluid. You can slice and dice and redo it, and indeed you want to, to > > get the best patch set. Quilt and friends rule for this stuff. > > Good description, that. quilt is a grown-up version of patch-scripts, and > is tailored to what I do, and to what distributors do: maintain a series of > diffs against a monolithic tree which someone else maintains. > > > Conclusion - use Quilt (with your favorite personal version control) on > > top of Bitkeeper. > > yup. I use patch-scripts+CVS in the way which you describe.
I had been wondering how you deal with so many patches... So do people actually use bitKeeper for more than the following:
(1) glorified 'cp -r' (2) memory of the history of the tree from which we did a 'cp -r'
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