Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261206AbVCESoH (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Mar 2005 13:44:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261240AbVCESiQ (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Mar 2005 13:38:16 -0500 Received: from fire.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:9451 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261277AbVCESeu (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Mar 2005 13:34:50 -0500 Message-ID: <4229F8F6.1090700@osdl.org> Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 10:22:46 -0800 From: "Randy.Dunlap" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041103) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Jeff Garzik , Russell King , Greg KH , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, chrisw@osdl.org Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.11.1 References: <20050304175302.GA29289@kroah.com> <20050304124431.676fd7cf.akpm@osdl.org> <20050304205842.GA32232@kroah.com> <20050304131537.7039ca10.akpm@osdl.org> <20050304135933.3a325efc.akpm@osdl.org> <20050304220518.GC1201@kroah.com> <20050305095139.A26541@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <4229EA0A.8010608@pobox.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1254 Lines: 36 Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Sat, 5 Mar 2005, Jeff Garzik wrote: > >>Yup, BK could definitely handle that... > > > However, it's also true that the thing BK is _worst_ at is cherry-picking > things, and having a collection of stuff where somebody may end up vetoing > one patch and saying "remove that one". > > So it's entirely possible that the proper tool to use for the first level > is not BK at all, but the evolved patch-scripts that Andrew uses, in other > words: > > http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/quilt > > may well be a much better thing to use. > > I love BK, but what BK does well is merging and maintaining trees full of > good stuff. What BK sucks at is experimental stuff where you don't know > whether something should be eventually used or not. I almost volunteered (read: suckered) and would use patch-scripts or quilt to do the job. It (the tool) seems to be a natural fit for it (the job). However, I'm happy with Greg and Chris doing it. :) suckers. -- ~Randy - 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/