Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 15 Dec 2003 10:58:39 -0800 | From | Larry McVoy <> | Subject | Re: RFC - tarball/patch server in BitKeeper |
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On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 07:31:38PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > you get the 2.4 branch linear history via bkcvs. Though there you lose > all the granular xfs development changesets instead, the xfs merge > becames a huge monolithic patch see below. Either way or another you > lose information compared to true BK. From my part I'm fine with the > info provided in bkcvs, I'm only correcting Larry statement about him > providing lots of way to get at the data in a interoperable protocol, > he's only providing _partial_ data in a interoperable way. I'm stating > facts, no whining intendend.
You can get at the full patch level granularity via BK/Web, on bkbits, complete with checkin comments, diffs, whatever you want. There isn't any more information to give you that is not internal BK information which is covered by trade secret. We have every right to not provide you with information about how BitKeeper works and we've already provided the data in multiple ways.
- You have an open export of the data into bkcvs, this addressed the "I'm not using BK so I'm at a disadvantage" problem
- You have patch by patch access to the data at bkbits.net for all repositories, this addressed the "I want the fine granularity of individual patches" problem.
- I've offered up the tarball+patch update protocol to address the "I'm not using BK so I can't easily track the latest version of J Random tree" problem.
And you still think that your needs aren't being addressed and feel the need to make the claim that there aren't enough ways to get at the data, that we are only providing partial data.
Forgive me if I don't agree, I don't think any remotely reasonable person would agree, and I am confident that there is not the slightest chance that you can get a court to agree. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - 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/
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