Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Jan 2002 18:43:18 -0700 | From | Val Henson <> | Subject | Re: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin |
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On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 11:48:05PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > One thing intrigued me in this thread - which was not the discussion > itself, but the fact that Rik is using bitkeeper. > > How many other people are actually using bitkeeper already for the kernel? > I know the ppc guys have, for a long time, but who else is? bk, unlike > CVS, should at least be _able_ to handle a "network of people" kind of > approach.
I'm one of the ppc people so I don't really count, but...
I've used bitkeeper for the kernel for a year now.
One of the issues in the "network of people" approach is how much time and effort it takes to maintain a separate tree while waiting for changes to be merged into the main tree. Bitkeeper really helps here. I've been maintaining a tree with significant differences from the mainline linuxppc tree, and I can pull and merge new changes without hand-editing a file 99% of the time. Maintaining my own tree is now a minor annoyance, instead of a major pain.
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