Messages in this thread | | | From | Roland Kuhn <> | Subject | Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed | Date | Thu, 17 Feb 2005 10:27:13 +0100 |
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Hi Clemens!
On Feb 17, 2005, at 9:09 AM, Clemens Schwaighofer wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 02/17/2005 04:55 PM, Roland Kuhn wrote: > >> That said, it would of course be possible to improve the internal >> workflow of our emperor penguin if he used subversion, but the >> collaboration with others could not benefit the way it does with a >> changeset-based approach. > > Question is then, what about keeping a main trunk with the vanialle > release, and each dev has its own branch. now at a certain point you > have to merge them. Now where is the difference between a central rep > and a de-central one. > At day X, patches from Andrew's tree have to go to Linus tree and from > his tree into the new vanialla kernel. right? > Somehow I can't see the difference here. > The difference comes after the merge. Suppose Andrew didn't push everything to Linus. Then new patches come in, both trees change. In this situation it is very time consuming with subversion to work out the changes which still have to go from Andrew's tree to Linus' tree.
Ciao, Roland
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