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Subject: Re: [H-GEN] Yet More CVS
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From: Jason Henry Parker <jasonp at uq.net.au>
Date: 03 Dec 2001 17:23:20 +1000
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Raymond Smith <zzrasmit at uqconnect.net> writes:

> So I can understand Linus wanting to avoid CVS if what he wants is
> tightly coordinated changes to a single source base.

And I maintain this is a false dichotomy.  Imagine a CVS repository
storing the Linux kernel.  The only person with commit rights to it is
Linus.  No-one else.  In fact, Linus doesn't even need to change how
he works, other than taking his diffs and committing them by hand to
CVS.

What does this give us?  All of a sudden, the hard caw Linux users can
track the kernel and patch up and down without futzing around with the
abortion that is scripts/patch-kernel.  They can keep one source file
at a specific version while updating the rest of the kernel
(drivers/block/loop.c, anyone?).  They can maintain their own set of
extensive patches without having to remove their patch, patch to
version n+1, and then reapply their own extensive patches (I have done
this for the SGI XFS stuff and it blows *great big hairy goats* let me
tell you).

None of this requires any substantive change in the way the Linux
kernel is developed, except that Linus has to learn how to apply a
patch to a CVS tree and commit it.

But no.  Pah.

Bollocks, I say.
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