Re: Kernel SCM saga..

[David Lang]

On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Martin Pool wrote:

> I haven't tested importing all 60,000+ changesets of the current bk tree,
> partly because I don't *have* all those changesets.  (Larry said
> previously that someone (not me) tried to pull all of them using bkclient,
> and he considered this abuse and blacklisted them.)

pull the patches from the BK2CVS server. yes some patches are combined, 
but it will get you in the ballpark.

David Lang

> I have been testing pulling in release and rc patches, and it scales to
> that level.  It probably could not handle 60,000 changesets yet, but there
> is a plan to get there.  In the interim, although it cannot handle the
> whole history forever it can handle large trees with moderate numbers of
> commits -- perhaps as many as you might deal with in developing a feature
> over a course of a few months.
>
> The most sensible place to try out bzr, if people want to, is as a way to
> keep your own revisions before mailing a patch to linus or the subsystem
> maintainer.
>
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> Martin
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