Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 17:18:01 -0400
From: David Eger <eger@havoc.gtf.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>, jdike@addtoit.com, blaisorblade_spam@yahoo.it,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Inclusion of UML in 2.6.8
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On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 11:40:25PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> > But work in progress, for which oneself is still the primary source, is
> > fluid.  You can slice and dice and redo it, and indeed you want to, to
> > get the best patch set.  Quilt and friends rule for this stuff.
> 
> Good description, that.  quilt is a grown-up version of patch-scripts, and
> is tailored to what I do, and to what distributors do: maintain a series of
> diffs against a monolithic tree which someone else maintains.
> 
> > Conclusion - use Quilt (with your favorite personal version control) on
> > top of Bitkeeper.
> 
> yup.  I use patch-scripts+CVS in the way which you describe.

I had been wondering how you deal with so many patches...
So do people actually use bitKeeper for more than the following:

(1) glorified 'cp -r'
(2) memory of the history of the tree from which we did a 'cp -r'

-dte
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