Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261353AbVDIQdz (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Apr 2005 12:33:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261356AbVDIQdz (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Apr 2005 12:33:55 -0400 Received: from scrub.xs4all.nl ([194.109.195.176]:14000 "EHLO scrub.xs4all.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261353AbVDIQdx (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Apr 2005 12:33:53 -0400 Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2005 18:33:23 +0200 (CEST) From: Roman Zippel X-X-Sender: roman@scrub.home To: Linus Torvalds cc: Andrea Arcangeli , Martin Pool , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , David Lang Subject: Re: Kernel SCM saga.. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20050406193911.GA11659@stingr.stingr.net> <20050407014727.GA17970@havoc.gtf.org> <1112852302.29544.75.camel@hope> <1112939769.29544.161.camel@hope> <20050408083839.GC3957@opteron.random> 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: 1334 Lines: 28 Hi, On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Also, I suspect that BKCVS actually bothers to get more details out of a > BK tree than I cared about. People have pestered Larry about it, so BKCVS > exports a lot of the nitty-gritty (per-file comments etc) that just > doesn't actually _matter_, but people whine about. Me, I don't care. My > sparse-conversion just took the important parts. As soon as you want to synchronize and merge two trees, you will know why this information does matter. (/me looks closer at the sparse-conversion...) It seems you exported the complete parent information and this is exactly the "nitty-gritty" I was "whining" about and which is not available via bkcvs or bkweb and it's the most crucial information to make the bk data useful outside of bk. Larry was previously very clear about this that he considers this proprietary bk meta data and anyone attempting to export this information is in violation with the free bk licence, so you indeed just took the important parts and this is/was explicitly verboten for normal bk users. bye, Roman - 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/