[Gllug] CVS vs RCS

[Stig Brautaset]

On Sep 20 2002, Kim was overheard saying:
[snip]
> -- 
>  "For future reference - don't anybody else try to send patches as vi
>   scripts, please. Yes, it's manly, but let's face it, so is bungee-jumping
>   with the cord tied to your testicles." -- Linus

Heh. Al, not wanting to infuriate Linus, now posts patches as ed
scripts[*] instead... 

[*] Never having used ed, I don't know what those ed directions are
called; thus I called it a script.

From: Alexander Viro <viro at math.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: fa.linux.kernel
Subject: Re: make bzImage fails on 2.5.38
        
On 22 Sep 2002, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

> On Sun, 2002-09-22 at 08:31, Alexander Viro wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, Aniruddha Shankar wrote:
> > 
> > > First post to the list, I've followed the format given in
> > > REPORTING-BUGS
> > > 
> > > 1. make bzImage fails on 2.5.38
> > 
> > Arrgh.
> > 
> > ed fs/partitions/check.c <<EOF
> > 365s/devfs_handle/cdroms/
> > w
> > q
> > EOF
> 
> using ed now that you can't post vi scripts ?

Hey, exact quote was "don't anybody else try to send patches as vi scripts",
so... ;-)  Seriously, in that case context diff is an overkill.
 

Stig
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