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SubjectRe: BK Kernel Hacking HOWTO
On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On Feb 26, 2002 18:45 +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > So what if Linus isn't happy with the changes you made in the for-Him-to-pull
> > tree? How do I back off (part of the changes)?
>
> Well, assuming he tells you that there is a problem, run "bk undo -r <rev>.."
> to remove the patchset that he doesn't like (in theory). If there have been
> a large number of changes after <rev> then they are all removed (there is no
> way to remove only a single CSET from within the middle of the tree. Then
> you re-do the changes in a way that Linus likes, and submit a new CSET.
>
> You could also add the fix to the same tree and hope he accepts both CSETs,
> but I think Linus doesn't want to clutter up his tree with <patch>+<fix>
> instead of a single <patch> that was correct in the first place.
>
> In some cases, you are probably better off to export the changes in <rev>
> into a diff, get a new Linus BK tree, and re-apply the patches + fixes
> and generate a new CSET from that.
>
> Not perfect, but that's life.

So in case he wants a few csets only, I have to redo my for-Him-to-pull-tree.
In which case I don't see any advantages compared to emailing a patch with
changeset- and file-specific comments. Especially since setting up a
for-Him-to-pull-tree requires setting up a publically accessible BK server.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
-- Linus Torvalds

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