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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
> 
>>>Note that BK really only helps if you are careful, and I can synchronize 
>>>with your BK tree. The fact that your BK tree contains non-alsa stuff 
>>
>>Please, remove the bksend script from Documentation/BK-usage/bksend . 
>>You don't like it and it's completely crappy. BK does renumbering of 
>>ChangeSets itselves. So everybody has different numbers for changesets.

The bksend script works just fine, provided you use it correctly...

I think the main use of the script is not merging with Linus but posting 
public, reviewable BK patches.


> But if there is a clean tree to pull from, that is absolutely the 
> preferred method for me to sync up, _especially_ with things like drivers. 
> Then an email that just says
> 
> 	Linus,
> 	  please do
> 
> 		bk pull .....
> 
> 	to receive changes to the following files
> 
> 	.. diffstat list ..
> 
> 	through the following changes
> 
> 	 .. changset list ..
> 
> and then I don't even need to see the diffs themselves if I can just see
> that it only touches the ALSA files (that's another reason why I really
> want clean trees - immediately that there is a changeset to a non-ALSA
> file I want to see diffs, so that I have a clue about potential conflicts)


And "Documentation/BK-usage/bk-make-sum ~/repo/linus-2.5" helpfully 
generates this output  ;-)

	Jeff



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