Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265556AbVBDXhG (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Feb 2005 18:37:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263490AbVBDXhF (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Feb 2005 18:37:05 -0500 Received: from electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com ([213.41.134.224]:59864 "EHLO fr.zoreil.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265556AbVBDXei (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Feb 2005 18:34:38 -0500 Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 00:31:53 +0100 From: Francois Romieu To: Stelian Pop , lm@bitmover.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto Message-ID: <20050204233153.GA28731@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> References: <20050203202049.GC20389@bitmover.com> <20050203220059.GD5028@deep-space-9.dsnet> <20050203222854.GC20914@bitmover.com> <20050204130127.GA3467@crusoe.alcove-fr> <20050204160631.GB26748@bitmover.com> <20050204170306.GB3467@crusoe.alcove-fr> <20050204183922.GC27707@bitmover.com> <20050204200507.GE5028@deep-space-9.dsnet> <20050204201157.GN27707@bitmover.com> <20050204214015.GF5028@deep-space-9.dsnet> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050204214015.GF5028@deep-space-9.dsnet> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Organisation: Land of Sunshine Inc. Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1230 Lines: 31 Stelian Pop : [...] > Now, suppose one of my patches introduced a problem. How can someone > not using BK isolate the patch which introduced the problem ? All he > can do is to back out the entire set of patches, and the whole point > of having split the patch initialy into logical changes is lost. Nope: he digs the bk-commit mailing list archives. For example, from Roland's mail 2005/01/31 01:37:39-05:00 len.brown 2005/01/31 01:35:48-05:00 len.brown 2005/01/31 00:15:20-05:00 len.brown 2005/01/31 00:12:40-05:00 len.brown [etc.] $ grep +/^ChangeSet.*2005/01/31.*len.brown ~/Mail/linux/bk-commit/200505 ChangeSet 1.1983.5.2, 2005/01/31 00:15:20-05:00, len.brown@intel.com ChangeSet 1.1938.498.11, 2005/01/31 00:12:40-05:00, len.brown@intel.com ChangeSet 1.1983.5.3, 2005/01/31 01:37:39-05:00, len.brown@intel.com ChangeSet 1.1938.498.12, 2005/01/31 01:35:48-05:00, len.brown@intel.com Same thing as in Roland's mail but the changes are isolated. -- Ueimor - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/