Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

[Sean]

On Thu, February 17, 2005 4:27 am, Roland Kuhn said:

> The difference comes after the merge. Suppose Andrew didn't push
> everything to Linus. Then new patches come in, both trees change. In
> this situation it is very time consuming with subversion to work out
> the changes which still have to go from Andrew's tree to Linus' tree.

Since Andrew does this all by hand now, subversion / arch / whatever could
only improve the situation.  And the kicker is that using a free system
would mean the result could be dumped into BK for those that want to use
it.   The reverse unfortunately isn't true; not because of technical
reasons, but because of license restrictions.

Sean


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