[U-Boot-Users] Revision COntrol, Patch Database -- was: Patch for Cirrus Logic EDB9312
Jerry Van Baren
gerald.vanbaren at smiths-aerospace.com
Tue Jan 18 17:01:52 CET 2005
Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> In message <6.0.1.1.0.20050118091601.01ba8630 at 192.168.2.1> you wrote:
>
>>Generally speaking about patch management, have you ever thought about
>>using BitKeeper to manage U-Boot repository? Thanks to your great effort and
>
>
> No. U-Boot is a Free Software project, and we will never make it
> dependent on a proprietary product withj nsty licensing terms.
>
>
>>to the U-Boot developers, its popularity is growing very fast and I think that
>>patch management task is become really huge. I started working with BitKeeper
>>because Linux 2.6 and I think it could ease this task a lot.
>
>
> It could if it was usable. But it ain't. It restricts your freedom in
> an unacceptable way. Did you read the BKL license? [It's difficult to
> do because it's only readable AFTER installing the product.] Did you
> read for example section "3. LICENSEE OBLIGATIONS": "(d) No free use
> for competitors". What if I happen to hack CVS, subversion or arch or
> any other free frevision control system?
>
>
> But I am perfectly aware that a system with support for distributed
> repositories would be beneficial. We will probably try switching to
> arch.
>
>
> And while we are at it: another thing that would be useful is a patch
> database. Any suggestions?
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Wolfgang Denk
>
The obvious answer (but not necessarily the correct answer :-) is gforge
http://gforge.org/
It says it can use subversion for version control as well as cvs. That
doesn't get you your distributed repository, however it does make it an
easier switch.
gvb
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