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List:       bitkeeper-users
Subject:    Re: [Bitkeeper-users] limit range of "pull"
From:       Larry McVoy <lm () bitmover ! com>
Date:       2002-12-02 19:08:25
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Right now all you can do is

	bk pull
	bk undo -fav2.4.20

On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 11:59:26AM -0700, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> I'd like to do "bk pull -r1.779", where "-r1779" would have the
> same meaning as for "bk clone -r1.779", i.e., update my
> repository from the parent, but only up to and including the
> parent's 1.779 revision.
> 
> This doesn't seem to be a supported operation, but maybe
> I'm missing something.
> 
> If it helps, here's the reason I want to do this.  I produce
> periodic IA64 patches for the Linux 2.4.x kernel.  I have
> a local "linux-2.4" repository whose parent is Marcelo's
> tree.  I periodically pull from Marcelo's tree, then use the
> local repository as the parent of other local repositories
> where I do IA64 merging and testing.
> 
> This is very convenient and works well between releases,
> but now I want to do a pull that gets everything up to and
> including the 2.4.20 release, do my final IA64 merging
> and testing, and generate the diff relative to 2.4.20.
> Obviously I don't want to merge in Marcelo's post-2.4.20
> changesets until after producing the 2.4.20-based patch.
> 
> Bjorn
> 
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