From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Dec 23 18:30:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (news-ma.rhein-neckar.de [193.197.90.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB0321566D for ; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 18:30:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from daemon@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de) Received: from bigeye.rhein-neckar.de (uucp@localhost) by news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with bsmtp id DAA27291 for freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org; Fri, 24 Dec 1999 03:30:46 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from daemon@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by bigeye.rhein-neckar.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id CAA13655 for freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org; Fri, 24 Dec 1999 02:13:36 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from daemon) From: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: CVSupping over a modem connection... Date: 24 Dec 1999 02:13:35 +0100 Message-ID: <83uhbv$daa$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> References: <00e601bf4cb3$4ef99660$68c101ca@bandhu> To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Rainer M Duffner 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