Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262260AbVBQKaG (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Feb 2005 05:30:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262187AbVBQKaF (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Feb 2005 05:30:05 -0500 Received: from simmts12.bellnexxia.net ([206.47.199.141]:50129 "EHLO simmts12-srv.bellnexxia.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262260AbVBQK3y (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Feb 2005 05:29:54 -0500 Message-ID: <4428.10.10.10.24.1108636051.squirrel@linux1> In-Reply-To: References: <20050214020802.GA3047@bitmover.com> <58cb370e05021404081e53f458@mail.gmail.com> <20050214150820.GA21961@optonline.net> <20050214154015.GA8075@bitmover.com> <7579f7fb0502141017f5738d1@mail.gmail.com> <20050214185624.GA16029@bitmover.com> <1108469967.3862.21.camel@crazytrain> <42131637.2070801@tequila.co.jp> <20050216154321.GB34621@dspnet.fr.eu.org> <4213E141.5040407@tequila.co.jp> <42145128.4030202@tequila.co.jp> Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 05:27:31 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed From: "Sean" To: "Roland Kuhn" Cc: "Clemens Schwaighofer" , "Olivier Galibert" , kernel@crazytrain.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a-7 X-Mailer: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a-7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 923 Lines: 21 On Thu, February 17, 2005 4:27 am, Roland Kuhn said: > The difference comes after the merge. Suppose Andrew didn't push > everything to Linus. Then new patches come in, both trees change. In > this situation it is very time consuming with subversion to work out > the changes which still have to go from Andrew's tree to Linus' tree. Since Andrew does this all by hand now, subversion / arch / whatever could only improve the situation. And the kicker is that using a free system would mean the result could be dumped into BK for those that want to use it. The reverse unfortunately isn't true; not because of technical reasons, but because of license restrictions. Sean - 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/