Re: Why not an arch mirror for the kernel?

From: Larry McVoy (lm@bitmover.com)
Date: Thu Mar 07 2002 - 11:15:56 EST


On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 05:09:15AM -0500, Jan Harkes wrote:
> Additional metadata can be stored as comments. i.e. given the right
> tools anything that goes from a BK patchset into $SCM can be turned back
> into a BK patchset later on. Same holds for the other direction as long
> as the comments are preserved.

That's where we disagree. I would encourage you to try it and learn for
yourself that diff&patch != BK. I can say that it won't work and you
simply won't believe me. Please, go try it, you'll see what I mean.

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