On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 06:57:24PM +0200, P. Christeas wrote: > > > 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. > There is also things that I don't know about git, so I won't jump to > conclusions yet (as to whether it is feasible to merge with Linus). It is possible to keep both Linus's and the lmo tree in the same repository with a _little_ care. I do that all the time. When compressed this will result in a bloat of just about 10-20MB. Ralf
