A new way to watch Linus

The lengthy BitKeeper flame war was not entirely without useful results. Some developers expressed a wish to have a better view into what patches were being applied without having to run BitKeeper to extract them; the response was the creation of a couple of "bk commits" mailing lists on vger.kernel.org. Every time Linus merges a patch, the "bk-commits-head" list gets a message containing that patch. A similar list (bk-commits-24) exists for those who want to track what's up with the 2.4 kernel instead. Now there's no excuse for not knowing what got merged into 2.5 ten minutes ago.

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