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From: Jacek Kawa <jfk@zeus.polsl.gliwice.pl>
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Jeff Garzik wrote:

> >>Old 2.5.x BK snapshots on kernel.org are now moved into the "old" 
> >>sub-directory, instead of being deleted.
[...]
> >It may not be related, but  
> >http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/testing/cset/
> >has "BitKeeper patches since v2.4.21-pre4: 354 Changesets"
> >(not latest -pre).
> Yep, I know :)
> The point of nightly snapshots is more for users use and testing 
> purposes.  The csets are very useful for developers, but a bit of a 
> moving target for users.

I'm just used to look there from time to time to see 'what is new', and
AFAIR changes were reported against latest prerelease. 
>From my point of view, as long as patches are in chronological order 
it's not a problem. :)

> If users are using the per-cset snapshots, 
> then it becomes a non-trivial chore to developers to track down exactly 
> what version of the kernel a problem is reported against.

Csets are useful for users- e.g. if the problem you want to report does 
not exist in latest cset -but generaly you are right. 

	Jacek

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