Re: Vger CVS R.I.P. (Was Re: the state of the linuxppc-dev community)

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Speaking of CVS, I find it strange that nobody in this thread mentions
the vger CVS tree any more (but then I am finding many things strange
recently, "ppclinux".apple.com forgetting mklinux and so on, it's
probably me getting old). Until very recently, this tree maintained a

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Say 3-4 months ago.

At least 2 months from what I recall, but I admit I haven't used vger
since 2.3.18-vger horribly broke booting my Lombard and I couldn't figure
out how to get any console output before framebuffer console init.

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very up-to-date version of PPC patches. It seems that since yesterday,
PPC support on this tree is officially dead. There are comments like

RCS file: /cvs/linux/linux/include/asm-ppc/hw_irq.h,v
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revision 1.3
date: 2000/02/07 21:37:25;  author: davem;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -1
Not maintained here anymore.

Very sad. As a user, I found CVS much better than rsync, because it
gives much more information and has more intelligence in merging with
local changes. I only hope that bitkeeper will give similar
possibilities.

Very sad indeed. Though rsync didn't destroy my local changes so far (huge
additions to adb.c, that was easy to merge. Reminds me to send those off
to Paul, argh).

BK should be(come) better than CVS. I'm happy with BK now (sort of, still
getting used to it).

And I just got used to CVS :-(( I'd need a BK primer when it gets
available.

	Michael


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