Re: bk repository

From: Larry McVoy
Date: Thu May 20 2004 - 10:27:05 EST


On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 09:39:51AM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 12:01:02AM -0400, Davidlohr Bueso A wrote:
> > When will the 2.6 branch be added to the bitkeeper resository?
> It's alrweady there, but with a bit mis-leading name.
> bk://linux.bkbits.net/linux-2.5
>
> To see the repository in your browser use:
> http://linux.bkbits.net and select the linux-2.5 repository.
>
> The reason to keep the linux-2.5 name is simply that renaming the repository
> would cause parent information to be void for all people pulling
> from this directory.
>
> To my knowledge there is no possibility to symlink two repositories, so
> both names could live in parrallel for a while??

Sure there is and it's done.

root@hostme:/repos/l/linux# ls -l
total 20
drwxrwxr-x 17 linux 1000 4096 May 20 05:29 linux-2.4
drwxrwxr-x 20 linux 1000 4096 May 20 07:27 linux-2.5
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 May 20 08:24 linux-2.6 -> linux-2.5
drwxrwxr-x 20 root root 4096 May 10 17:40 lm
drwxrwxr-x 16 linux root 4096 Apr 16 23:43 vger
drwxrwxr-x 5 linux.ad 1000 4096 Mar 28 2002 www

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Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitkeeper.com
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