Re: linux-2.5.4-pre1 - bitkeeper testing

From: Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Wed Feb 06 2002 - 10:32:00 EST


On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Florian Weimer wrote:
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> writes:
>
> > The long-range plan, and the real payoff, comes if main developers start
> > using bk too, which should make syncing a lot easier. That will take some
> > time, I suspect.
>
> Do you think that at some point, using BitKeeper will become mandatory
> for subsystem maintainers? ("mandatory" in the sense that
> non-BitKeeper input is dealt with in a less timely fashion, for
> example.)

They're pretty much equally easy to deal with, except that the
bitkeeper patches will always apply and will get better changelog
entries ;)

regards,

Rik

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