Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262294AbVBKRat (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Feb 2005 12:30:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262299AbVBKR2q (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Feb 2005 12:28:46 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:44251 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262294AbVBKRYe (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Feb 2005 12:24:34 -0500 To: lm@bitmover.com (Larry McVoy) Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" , Stelian Pop , Francois Romieu , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto References: <20050204233153.GA28731@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> <20050205193848.GH5028@deep-space-9.dsnet> <20050205233841.GA20875@bitmover.com> <20050208154343.GH3537@crusoe.alcove-fr> <20050208155845.GB14505@bitmover.com> <20050209155113.GA10659@bitmover.com> <20050210222403.GA5920@thunk.org> <20050211155351.GB16507@bitmover.com> From: Alexandre Oliva Organization: Red Hat Global Engineering Services Compiler Team Date: 11 Feb 2005 15:24:17 -0200 In-Reply-To: <20050211155351.GB16507@bitmover.com> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1055 Lines: 17 On Feb 11, 2005, lm@bitmover.com (Larry McVoy) wrote: > You are also right that figuring out the merges is a pain. So what? > We never said that we'd figure out how to do all this well and then > teach you how to do it well. We're not asking for you to teach us how to do it. We're just asking you to let us know the information that is (presumably) stored in the repository. Now if you tell me the information isn't stored there at all, you just throw it away at check in time and then figures it all out again on the fly upon request, fine, I'll believe you. I just wouldn't have thought that's the way it works. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} - 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/