2006/1/10, P. Christeas <p_christ@xxxxxx>: > On Tuesday 10 January 2006 6:38 pm, Ivan Korzakow wrote: > > 2006/1/10, P. Christeas <p_christ@xxxxxx>: > > > > You make sure you have the two trees and diff them. > > > They 're both in git and typically you could do that only using git. > > > > Have you ever tried what you're talking about or is it a guess ? > > For example, let's say that there's a bug introduced when merging > > Linus tree with mips branch. How do you easily "bisect" in order to do > > a binary seek of this bug ? > > I was about to mention the git incompatibility as I gave you the first > answer. It's true what you say and I also find it annoying. That's why I use > Linus tree. > I cannot, though, complaint to Ralph about this practice. It seems that he has > done his best to preserve the CVS history of his tree. We can only thank him > for that. It is just a lot of work to trim the tree and make it > Linus-parallel. Why not simply keep CVS repository available for 1% of people willing to browse the history ? And make life easier for 99% of people willing to work on 2.6 ... (2.4 work may continue to use CVS too). Ivan
