Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 6 Mar 2002 09:00:11 -0800 | From | Larry McVoy <> | Subject | Re: Petition Against Official Endorsement of BitKeeper by Linux Maintainers |
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On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 03:30:03PM +0100, Roman Zippel wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > > > I also prefer not to use Bitkeeper as long as possible for similar reasons > > > and because it is too slow and clumpsy > > > (although it is already very hard because often source is only available > > > through it, e.g. for ppc or for 2.5 pre patches now -- hopefully this trend > > > does not continue) > > > > The PPC trees are available through rsync as well. > > > > http://www.penguinppc.org/dev/kernel.shtml > > With rsync you get only the latest version, but not any previous > version. For APUS I have to use bk to extract the ppc tree version I want > to import, for m68k I only have to go to ftp.kernel.org and grab the right > patch.
Is the problem that you can't figure out how to extract all the patches from BK so you can put them up for FTP? Here, I'll do it for you:
# extract all the patches from 2.5.0 onward. bk prs -hrv2.5.0.. | while read x do bk export -tpatch -r$i > ~ftp/patches/patch-$i done
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