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Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2002 20:32:17 -0400
From: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: Larry McVoy <lm@work.bitmover.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: New BK License Problem?
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On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 09:27:25PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, Ben Collins wrote:
> 
> > I've also been wanting to use bitkeeper to create a Subversion mirror of
> > the kernel repository,
> 
> You don't need to use bitkeeper for that, you can download all the
> bitkeeper changesets as patches from my ftp site:
> 
> ftp://nl.linux.org/pub/linux/bk2patch/

Oh, but that may be useless, unless you regenerate your patches whenever
the tree is reparented. I ran into this while trying to do the same
thing. Basing it on the ChangeSet ID is a waste, and it needs to be
based on the ChangeSet key instead (the ChangeSet ID for a given key can
change when a merge is done).

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