Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 07 Apr 2005 23:41:26 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: Kernel SCM saga.. |
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Linus Torvalds wrote: > In other words, this cherry-picking can generally be scripted and done > "outside" the SCM (you can trivially have a script that takes a revision > from one tree and applies it to the other). I don't believe that the SCM > needs to support it in any fundamentally inherent manner. After all, why > should it, when it really boilds down to > > (cd old-tree ; scm export-as-patch-plus-comments) | > (cd new-tree ; scm import-patch-plus-comments) > > where the "patch-plus-comments" part is just basically an extended patch > (including rename information etc, not just the comments).
Not that it matters anymore, but that's precisely what the script Documentation/BK-usage/cpcset did, for BitKeeper.
Jeff
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