From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261889AbVBUFnk (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Feb 2005 00:43:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261898AbVBUFnk (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Feb 2005 00:43:40 -0500 Received: from TYO201.gate.nec.co.jp ([210.143.35.51]:28563 "EHLO tyo201.gate.nec.co.jp") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261889AbVBUFni (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Feb 2005 00:43:38 -0500 To: "Theodore Ts'o" Cc: Sean , Horst von Brand , Chris Friesen , "d.c" , cs@tequila.co.jp, galibert@pobox.com, kernel@crazytrain.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed References: <4912.10.10.10.24.1108675441.squirrel@linux1> <200502180142.j1I1gJXC007648@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> <1451.10.10.10.24.1108713140.squirrel@linux1> <20050218162729.GA5839@thunk.org> From: Miles Bader Reply-To: Miles Bader System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Blat: Foop Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 14:43:19 +0900 In-Reply-To: <20050218162729.GA5839@thunk.org> (Theodore Ts'o's message of "Fri, 18 Feb 2005 11:27:29 -0500") Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org "Theodore Ts'o" writes: > The "cost" of using BK seems to be primarily more theoretical, and > ideological, than real. I've never used BK (not allowed to), but some things I've read about it sound quite annoying. For instance: * Every source tree contains your entire repository => massive disk usage * Must "unlock" files before working on them ("bk edit"); I recall doing this with RCS, and it was, well, a real pain. -Miles -- "Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it." Mahatma Ghandi