Re: auto-bk-get

Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@pobox.com)
Thu, 10 Jul 2003 17:09:10 -0400


Dan Aloni wrote:
> For kernel developers which are BitKeeper users,
>
> auto-bk-get is an on-demand 'bk get' libc wrapper tool.
>
> It means that you don't need to run 'bk -r get' in order to build
> the kernel. Instead, you just run 'make config' or 'make bzImage',
> using auto-bk-get in a clean repository and auto-bk-get will
> only 'bk get' the files you need from the repository (one of my
> test cases showed only 2800 out of 14000 files were checked out).

No offense, but, it would probably be easier to fix the few remaining
places where the makefile system does not automatically check out the files.

It works great for everything except the Kconfig stuff, IIRC.

Jeff

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