Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 Mar 2003 18:42:47 +0100 | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] BK->CVS (real time mirror) |
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On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 06:16:20AM -0800, Larry McVoy wrote: > On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 11:08:30PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > > Actually, fact that "longest path" algorithm may well choose > > > non-mainline branch because it likes it more worries me a bit. > > > > AFIK it's supposed to be the "longest path" of Linus's and Marcelo's > > branches which means it'll reproduce all the modifcations of the > > mainline trees only. > > By the way, we've been incrementally updating both trees and while in > theory the incremental could result in shorter paths with less detail, > so far the incremental export and the one pass export result in exactly > the same path: > > slovax $ bk _eventpath 1.0 + | wc -l > 8498 > slovax $ cd ../linux-2.5-cvs/linux-2.5 > slovax $ rlog -r -N ChangeSet | grep revision > revision 1.8498 > > I've actually reimported the data in one pass and diffed the RCS files, > it's the same. > > HPA, should we be mirroring the CVS tarballs to kernel.org?
fine thanks!
BTW, CVS kernel + cvsps is just been extremely useful to me so far.
I also run into some huge patches like PatchSet 4711 in the 2.5 tree that I would love if it could be splitted properly but I understand it's impossible, right?
Thank you very much again for this great open service!
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