Re: Breaks in lenny
On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 05:00:15PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> I think you just need to go look at the Linux kernel source, and
> git, and number and size of the different trees ythat are out there,
> and how well git scales to those.
>
> quilt is not even in the ball park. I am not sure it can play
> the same ball game, even. I would love to see anyone try to convince
> Linus how quilt would make the kernel code easier to deal with than git
> does (advance notice so I can bring pop corn would be appreciated).
Andrew Morton uses (or used, I don't know if it's changed) quilt to manage
releases of the linux kernel. He apparently refuses (refused? I don't
follow lkml) to use git. So yes, quilt can scale up to the linux kernel
size quite well.
- David Nusinow
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