Date: 24 Dec 1999 02:13:35 +0100 From: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CVSupping over a modem connection... Message-ID: <83uhbv$daa$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> References: <00e601bf4cb3$4ef99660$68c101ca@bandhu> <Marcel-1.46-1223110727-0b0Zsav@duffner.surf24.de>
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Rainer M Duffner <Rainer.Duffner@surf24.de> wrote: > Have I seen it correctly that there is e.g. no central Linux-kernel > cvs-repository ? Correct. > I wonder how they can still develop their kernel. Must > be pretty difficult. "Linux scales, but Linus doesn't" they used to say. There's a tree of developers with Linus at its root. Changes are propagated as patches up the tree. Eventually Linus releases a new version as tarball and patch against the previous release. So you have flows of patch files and a lot of people merging them into their respective source trees. Apparently it works well enough. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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