Re: bk repository

[Randy.Dunlap]

On Thu, 20 May 2004 19:54:38 -0400 Ryan Anderson <ryan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

| On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 08:25:43AM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
| > 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 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
| 
| Wouldn't it make sense to avoid the need to do this in the future?
| 
| Specifically, make a tree named "linux" available - that's always the
| Linus tree.
| 
| Create linux-2.6/2.8/3.0/3.2 etc as they are handed off to maintainers
| *other* than Linus?
| 
| Or some combination that makes sense.  It just seems weird to me to need
| to continually change the name of the main development tree.

Continually, as in every 2-3 years?  I don't see much of a problem
here unless the cycle length changes.

--
~Randy
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