On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 04:58:24PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Greg KH wrote:
>
> > As per the comments about BitKeeper on lkml, I will not have a usb bk
> > tree anymore. I've switched over to using quilt, and will expose that
> > patchset for everyone to see in some form so that people can keep up to
> > date with my tree. An initial dump of the tree is at:
> > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/gregkh-2.6/
> > if you want to see how it's going (86 patches with only 1 usb fix, this
> > is going to get big real fast...)
>
> I'm not clear on how this is going to work.
Neither am I :(
> Is there a particular program I can use to help keep track of these
> patches? Is that what quilt is supposed to do?
That is what quilt does.
> What is the base tree to which the patches are supposed to apply? How do
> I know when the base is changed?
Ah, good point. I'll have to figure that one out.
> What happens when a patch file, like klist-25.patch, doesn't have the
> correct permissions for downloading?
Bug me and I'll fix it. Sorry about that, default perms from mutt I
guess. It should be fixed in a bit when the main kernel.org server
syncs up.
I realize this isn't the best way to handle this so far, and I know it
isn't workable. I'm thinking of doing something like the following:
- provide raw quilt directory of patches (like the directory
above has in it.)
- nightly provide a patch against the latest kernel tree for the
different projects I keep track of (usb, i2c, pci, driver
core, everything-and-the-kitchen-sink, etc.) This patch will
be made by applying a subset of the above patches (delineated
by proejct type), and will probably be what ends up in the -mm
releases.
Sound good to start with? If we ever get a working scm that can handle
the kernel tree, I'll revise this. It's a work in progress, any
feedback as to what can make your lives easier is also appreciated.
thanks,
greg k-h
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