Re: [bk patch] Make cardbus compile in -pre4

[Andreas Dilger]

On Feb 10, 2002  12:57 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Feb 2002, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> > What about BK CSET (or regular patch) submissions from non-core
> > developers?  Would you accept CSETs via email if they are preceeded
> > by a unified diff and explanation?
> 
> I have worked with a few BK patches in email, and I have to say that I
> pretty much detest them. The less I have to work with them, the better,
> although that may just because I don't yet have the same kind of
> infrastructure for them as I have for regulat patches.
>
> (But _please_ do a "bk send" to a file, and edit the file before you send
> it, instead of sending directly with that "Bitkeeper patch" subject line.
> It looks like "bk send" was really designed for automatic merges, not for
> humans)

Yes, the first time I used "bk send" to send something directly to Ted it
happened that I was offline so I looked into my mail spool at the emails
and also hated it.  What I was proposing instead of just "bk send" is to
prepend the changelog entry, a real unified diff, and gzip_uu CSET at the
end.  Larry has agreed that "bk send -d -wgzip_uu" wrapping the diff part
of the patch is a bug to be fixed.

So, instead of the current layout of "'This is a BitKeeper patch' comment +
commented-out diff + BK stuff", I would send "CSET ChangeLog + unified diff +
gzip_uu wrapped BK stuff".  This would be the output of (probably in a script):

bk changes -r<rev>
bk export -tpatch -h -du -r<rev>
bk send -wgzip_uu -r<rev> -

For example, your recent 2.5.4 release would look like the below, and I
_think_ you could just accept this with "bk receive -a [repository path]",
but I'm not sure how good the BK heuristics are for finding a CSET at the
end of a long patch.  I'm only skeptical because the current "bk send"
output comments out the diff part of the output.

ChangeSet@1.262, 2002-02-10 19:24:03-08:00, [e-mail]
  update version
  TAG: v2.5.4

diff -Nru a/Makefile b/Makefile
--- a/Makefile	Mon Feb 11 10:44:32 2002
+++ b/Makefile	Mon Feb 11 10:44:32 2002
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 VERSION = 2
 PATCHLEVEL = 5
 SUBLEVEL = 4
-EXTRAVERSION =-pre6
+EXTRAVERSION =
 
 KERNELRELEASE=$(VERSION).$(PATCHLEVEL).$(SUBLEVEL)$(EXTRAVERSION)
 
This BitKeeper patch contains the following changesets:
1.262
## Wrapped with gzip_uu ##

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end

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
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http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/