Vger CVS R.I.P. (Was Re: the state of the linuxppc-dev community)

[Michael Schmitz]

> > Speaking of CVS, I find it strange that nobody in this thread mentions
> > the vger CVS tree any more (but then I am finding many things strange
> > recently, "ppclinux".apple.com forgetting mklinux and so on, it's
> > probably me getting old). Until very recently, this tree maintained a
>                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Say 3-4 months ago.

At least 2 months from what I recall, but I admit I haven't used vger
since 2.3.18-vger horribly broke booting my Lombard and I couldn't figure
out how to get any console output before framebuffer console init.

> > very up-to-date version of PPC patches. It seems that since yesterday,
> > PPC support on this tree is officially dead. There are comments like
> >
> > RCS file: /cvs/linux/linux/include/asm-ppc/hw_irq.h,v
> > []
> > revision 1.3
> > date: 2000/02/07 21:37:25;  author: davem;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -1
> > Not maintained here anymore.
> >
> > Very sad. As a user, I found CVS much better than rsync, because it
> > gives much more information and has more intelligence in merging with
> > local changes. I only hope that bitkeeper will give similar
> > possibilities.

Very sad indeed. Though rsync didn't destroy my local changes so far (huge
additions to adb.c, that was easy to merge. Reminds me to send those off
to Paul, argh).

> BK should be(come) better than CVS. I'm happy with BK now (sort of, still
> getting used to it).

And I just got used to CVS :-(( I'd need a BK primer when it gets
available.

	Michael


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