Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262668AbVDHDmD (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Apr 2005 23:42:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262669AbVDHDmD (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Apr 2005 23:42:03 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:54147 "EHLO parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262668AbVDHDln (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Apr 2005 23:41:43 -0400 Message-ID: <4255FD66.7060803@pobox.com> Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 23:41:26 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050328 Fedora/1.7.6-1.2.5 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Al Viro , David Woodhouse , Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Kernel SCM saga.. References: <1112858331.6924.17.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050407171006.GF8859@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Warning: 24.25.22.197 is listed at orbz.gst-group.uk.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 985 Lines: 26 Linus Torvalds wrote: > In other words, this cherry-picking can generally be scripted and done > "outside" the SCM (you can trivially have a script that takes a revision > from one tree and applies it to the other). I don't believe that the SCM > needs to support it in any fundamentally inherent manner. After all, why > should it, when it really boilds down to > > (cd old-tree ; scm export-as-patch-plus-comments) | > (cd new-tree ; scm import-patch-plus-comments) > > where the "patch-plus-comments" part is just basically an extended patch > (including rename information etc, not just the comments). Not that it matters anymore, but that's precisely what the script Documentation/BK-usage/cpcset did, for BitKeeper. Jeff - 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/