Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 17:04:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 17:04:57 -0400 Received: from dsl-213-023-039-131.arcor-ip.net ([213.23.39.131]:59039 "EHLO starship") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 17:04:48 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Daniel Phillips To: Doug Ledford Subject: Re: BK, deltas, snapshots and fate of -pre... Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 23:05:11 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] Cc: Larry McVoy , Ian Molton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To:

<20020422165327.A914@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Monday 22 April 2002 22:53, Doug Ledford wrote: > On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 10:29:19PM +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote: > > On Monday 22 April 2002 21:53, Doug Ledford wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 07:34:49PM +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote: > > > > How about a URL instead? Any objection? > > > > > > Yes. Why should I have to cut and paste (assuming I'm in X) or > > > write down > > > > What??? What kind of system are you running? Err... redhat supports > > cut and paste I thought. <-- funnny. > > Depends on what you use to read the file containing the URL. Obviously, > if I'm Al Viro I'm on a text console and wouldn't use a mouse if you > cemented it in my hand, so cut and paste isn't an option. Would everybody with no mouse on their system please stand up, and leave the room. Seriously, you're trolling. > > > and transpose some URL from a file that used to contain > > > the exact instructions I need in order to get those instructions now > > > > Bogus. You'd have to do the same to edit/list the file. > > No, I wouldn't. In one case I would do "less " and in the other > case I would do "less ", ohh damn, it's only a pointer to the > real docs, switch to X or install lynx on my system, go to URL. It's a > matter of having the appropriate documentation at hand vs. having to > retrieve it. lynx What's the difference? > I put my docs on my web site because that's what I owned/controlled and it > was relevant to people already coming to my web site. That in no way > indicates that your position is correct, especially since you ignored to > truly relevant item in my email: I'm actually trying to do a little work as well as handle all the input from the Bitkeeper moonies, thankyou. Err, did I say moonies, sorry I meant advocates, err, apologists, umm. Sorry, I just meant I've been getting a lot of email lately, some of it is too long to read every word. Unless you are a spectacularly good writer, expect some of your deathless prose to drop through the cracks. > > > information so that the whole picture, from start to finish, was all > > > described in one easy to access place. > > One place for relevant information, from start to finish. Right. bitkeeper.com, any argument? > > You haven't read the thread closely, this was described before. There are > > one documentation file and three scripts. The documentation file is about > > half general description of Bitkeeper - which is quite unabashedly > > promotional and the author does describe it as an adverisement - and half > > how to use for submitting kernel patches. > > Now, now Daniel, let's not put words into people's mouths. Jeff has said > he does like BitKeeper, and he said he could *see how you think his > description is an advertisement* but that he *didn't write it as an > advertisement*. He agreed it was an advertisement. -- Daniel - 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/