Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 14 Nov 2003 08:14:10 +0100 | From | Jan-Benedict Glaw <> | Subject | Re: kernel.bkbits.net off the air |
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On Thu, 2003-11-13 10:21:10 -0800, Tupshin Harper <tupshin@tupshin.com> wrote in message <3FB3CB96.9080507@tupshin.com>: > Davide Libenzi wrote: > >Larry, if there are really six users (i'm one of them, rsync) among > >pserver and rsync access, I am the first to tell you shut it down. It is > >not worth. On the other hand IIRC it was you that, when Pavel showed up > >with the bitbucket hack to extract metadata from BK, volunteered to do it > >internally inside BM. Do I remember correctly? > As one of the six, I would happily 2nd the shutting down of the > pserver...rsync is fine with me. I would actually prefer no CVS archive > at all as long as the raw changesets were rsyncable...then the community > would be responsible for doing something useful with them instead of BM.
That would be fine with me, too, but there's one little drawback: The changeset format. You can't simply use a patch(1) file because there is a (really little) number of non-text files in the kernel source tree that won't diff...
MfG, JBG
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