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Linus Tries Out BitKeeper
Flammon writes: "Linus has been overloaded
with patches for a while and recently the issue started to become hot again. In an unprecedented move, Linus has started using BitKeeper, as reported by Linux Today. The benefits of BitKeeper are already showing from the large amount of detail provided in the latest unstable kernel pre-release." eirikref adds: "Read Linus' own statement and take a look at the BK web interface."
I wonder if the nice people at Ask Jeeves are going to mind having their (presumably trademarked) logo swiped for this?
It's high time he told the community to screw off for a bit.
It's his friggin' hobby, after all. If people don't like the way he deals with it, maybe they ought to go work for a more personable coder on another OS, like, say, Theo De Raadt.
Scary thought, hey?
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Pine.LNX.4.31.0202051928330.2375-100000
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Bitkeeper is available under two licenses. The commercial license costs money and comes with support. The non-commercial license does not cost money., but it has a requirement that all your ChangeLogs must be sent to a world-readable server controlled by BitMover.
;-)
Bitkeeper source is available, but it's illegal to redistribute a version of Bitkeeper with the mandatory open logging stripped out.
Bitmover Inc. wants to avoid the situation where people use bitkeeper like gcc, taking free software tools but not giving anything back. You can pay Bitmover money, or you can use a free-as-in-beer version that is suitable for software libre and unsuitable for closed-source software.
Hi Larry
Life's a bitch but somebody's gotta do it.
In other news, demons all over Hell were seen lacing up their skates for the upcoming hockey match against the U.S. National team.
Thats not Hell! Thats Canada!
oh, wait..
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I don't blame Linus for trying out Bitkeeper. After using Rational (formerly Atria) Clearcase for several years, and then working on a project using CVS, I can't believe that CVS is hyped the way it is. Sure, it works for small projects.
Why nothing can beat Clearcase:
1. Clearcase is integrated into the OS and the repositories are actual filesystems. I create a "config_spec" that lists all of the branches and labels that I want to see. I don't have to checkout stuff, and copy a large project into a private directory. If I want to see another developer's change to a small set of files, I just add his/her branch to my config_spec. No recopying or anything like that.
2. Clearmake. If someone else in my organization builds the same object file (from the exact same version of the source file), I don't have to rebuild it. I love typing "clearmake" of something huge that I've never built before, and it is done in no time!! If something does have to be rebuilt, builds are distributed across a dozen or so machines.
3. Real branches. When I am developing something, I make a temporary branch on all the files. If I want to be able to let someone else use my "development" branches, I just let them know what the branch name is. When it is production-ready, we just merge the development branch into the main branch. No such thing as patch files in Clearcase world.
There is a reason that Clearcase is expensive and proprietary.
That comment really is there in the old V6 source. I went looking for it.
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