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RMS Calls On Linux Developers To Replace BitKeeper

Posted by timothy on from the worthy-ambition dept.

JakusMinimus writes "The developer of BitKeeper has issued fighting words to RMS and he has responded on the LKML,. I remember the flap about this way back when Linus decided on BitKeeper, now it seems many of the non-free concerns were warranted."

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  1. Re:I don't get it. by jd · · Score: 4, Funny
    AFAIK, the reason was that CVS and other version-tracking systems just weren't cutting the mustard. They weren't good enough about conflicting patches (where the conflicts were created by some other patch), and they weren't good about patches that overlap or otherwise interact.


    BitKeeper, from what I understand, was the best alternative out there at the time. Unfortunately, the maintainer is proving buggy and may be unstable under certain conditions.

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  2. Cox on the point of this troll. by damsgaard · · Score: 4, Funny

    From: Alan Cox
    To:
    Subject: Re: Bitkeeper ...

    If everyone spent the time replacing bitkeeper instead of beating up
    Larry they'd get a lot further. I appreciate beating up Larry is more
    fun but.... ...

  3. Re:Jesus by SharpFang · · Score: 4, Funny

    [i]That sounds waaaaaaaaay too much like Microsoft for me[/i]

    Naah. Microsoft would never SAY such thing. (they do this secretly)

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