Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261875AbVDGHTt (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Apr 2005 03:19:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261758AbVDGHTY (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Apr 2005 03:19:24 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:44963 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261749AbVDGHTH (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Apr 2005 03:19:07 -0400 Subject: Re: Kernel SCM saga.. From: David Woodhouse To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 08:18:50 +0100 Message-Id: <1112858331.6924.17.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.1.1 (2.2.1.1-2) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 814 Lines: 19 On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 08:42 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > PS. Don't bother telling me about subversion. If you must, start reading > up on "monotone". That seems to be the most viable alternative, but don't > pester the developers so much that they don't get any work done. They are > already aware of my problems ;) One feature I'd want to see in a replacement version control system is the ability to _re-order_ patches, and to cherry-pick patches from my tree to be sent onwards. The lack of that capability is the main reason I always hated BitKeeper. -- dwmw2 - 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/