Re: Petition Against Official Endorsement of BitKeeper by Linux Maintainers

From: Roman Zippel (zippel@linux-m68k.org)
Date: Wed Mar 06 2002 - 09:30:03 EST


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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