On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 04:29:12PM +0100, Keith Whitwell wrote: > >I'm not sure that anyone is asking you to use it. What's wrong with the > >people who want to use BK use BK and the people who want to use CVS use > >CVS? > > Primarily the difficulty of creating an automated two-way bridge between > them. As I understood it, the BK->CVS gateway you've talked about is a > one-way affair, right?
You'd need someone (or a set of someones) who acted as gatekeeper for the BK tree. The CVS users would do their checkouts, make their changes, and not commit, they just generate diffs and send them to the core team (exactly the way all the non commit people get changes in now). We have tools in BK, partially written by Linus, that take a mail message (or a mailbox) and check in all the patches in that mail, taking using the from information as the check in information, the preamble as the checkin comments, etc. That approach is version control agnostic, it doesn't care where the data is coming from, it's just a patch with some comments. Linus can check in hundreds of these patches a day using BK, we've streamlined the process as much as possible. Would that work for you? -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
