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Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 15:30:03 +0100 (CET)
From: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
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Subject: Re: Petition Against Official Endorsement of BitKeeper by Linux  
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Hi,

On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

> > I also prefer not to use Bitkeeper as long as possible for similar reasons 
> > and because it is too slow and clumpsy 
> > (although it is already very hard because often source is only available 
> > through it, e.g. for ppc or for 2.5 pre patches now -- hopefully this trend
> > does not continue)
> 
> The PPC trees are available through rsync as well.
> 
>     http://www.penguinppc.org/dev/kernel.shtml

With rsync you get only the latest version, but not any previous
version. For APUS I have to use bk to extract the ppc tree version I want
to import, for m68k I only have to go to ftp.kernel.org and grab the right
patch.

bye, Roman

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