At 17:46 21/04/02, Jochen Friedrich wrote:
> > >Wrong. Many corporate firewalls allow email and http (both via proxy) and
> > >reject any other traffic. CVS and BK are both unusable in this
> > >environment.
> >
> > Not wrong. BK works fine over http protocol. CVS is another matter which I
> > cannot comment on...
>
>Ok, but there are other scenarios where only email is available (often via
>mail gateways like softswitch on os/390)...
Then use BK over email then (to submit a patch of your last change set for
example you would do "bk export -tpatch -r+", and the receiving end does a
simple "cat emailmessagetext | bk receive" and that's it done.
Obviously you haven't looked at bitkeeper... (-;
Anton
ps. You better be prepared to accept very large emails if you want to send
a whole linux kernel repository by email though! Never mind if you are
using bitkeeper or just a tar ball!
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