Re: Suggestion re: [PATCH] Remove Bitkeeper documentation from Linux tree
Larry McVoy (lm@bitmover.com)
Tue, 23 Apr 2002 08:02:16 -0700
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 08:10:28AM -0400, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> >>>>> "Larry" == Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com> writes:
>
> Larry> On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 01:48:51PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> >> Can you get the bkbits.net interface to spit out text/plain
> >> GNU-style patches?
>
> Larry> Not on bkbits.net. It eats up too much bandwidth. If someone
> Larry> else wants to host a bkbits.net mirror and they want to allow
> Larry> that, then I'll add the code.
>
> One thing that really irritates me about the bkbits.com page (unless I
> missed figuring out how to so this) is that you can't seem to be able
> to pull down the plain text version of a source file. The only thing
> it will give you is a vile HTML'ified version which adds about 15
> chars/line with naming and which has all tab's converted into spaces.
>
> Any chance you'd add this?
Sure, as soon as we find a mirror for bkbits.net, having a plain text
interface to the files/patches, is a fine idea. Until then, I need to
hoard my bandwidth. I'm working on the mirror problem.
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