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Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 18:42:47 +0100
From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
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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!

Andrea
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