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Linus Drops BitKeeper
ravenII wrote in to mention a story running on CNet, which discusses Linus Torvald's decision to no longer use BitKeeper. From the article: "Linus Torvalds is looking for a new SCM for his project's source code after a conflict involving the current management system, BitKeeper. 'I've decided to not use BK (BitKeeper) mainly because I need to figure out the alternatives,' Torvalds said in a posting. 'Rather than continuing things as normal, I decided to bite the bullet and just see what life without BK looks like.' Coverage on the BitKeeper announcement from earlier this week is also available. Update: 04/10 16:36 GMT by Z : Updated to reflect the story's origin.
I believe even Microsoft don't always 'eat their own dogfood' on this one.
Well, there's always CVS... *sigh*...
Or you could teach your code to two hundred trained squirrels, a la Tim Burton. Then every time you changed some code, you could train another squirrel. Not only would you have an army of Code Squirrels at your command, but... eh, you'd probably be locked up...
I am scientifically inaccurate.
Are you trying to subvert Linux? You must work for Microsoft!
Ba-dum-tish! Thank you, I'll be here all week. Try the veal, tip your waitress!
Bitkeeper loses only customer
Visual Source Safe!
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I, for one, welcome our new karma-whoring cliche mixing overlords.
Excuse me, I don't mean to impose, but I am the ocean
Why not use CVS?
Now that's a great idea. I'm sure Linus didn't even look at that option when he decided to use a SCM!
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Yes! That way we can store 10x the data in the same ammount of space. This will solve the 32bit int number problem they are having.
Lets get perpendicular!
That's what Prof. Knuth would've done. Take a few years off and solve the SCM problem first, that OS stuff can wait.
Oh, yeah. We got extra Knuths, just dropping out of the trees.
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
Linus has to like it.
Ah ha! Tove can be the new SCM.
Yeah, nothing free makes any economic sense whatsoever.
Like Google, providing a free web search service running on a free OS (Linux) using free/open protocols (HTTP over TCP over IP) and serving pages in a free/open standard (HTML).
And no one used Sendmail and BIND, those free programs aren't used at all by any one with any economic signifcant right?
(Note, I was being sarcastic - just thought I'd make that clear before someone with an itchy trigger finger mods this post as "Flamebait".
Just because it CAN be done, doesn't mean it should!
,,Oh+God@I_hope_he,,doesnt+use++arch.
=I,couldn't++bear=the=pain.
Normally a post like this would be moderated 'funny', but for that to happen, the moderator would have to have arch experience and both arch users are out of mod points today.
Great idea. Linus should stop writing kernel code (what everyone seems to think he's good at) and create *yet another* GPL revision control system to add to the 20-odd that already exist.
I wish I could shoot anyone who uses the cliched catchphrase "I for one".
UNIX was open source from AT&T
If we had a time machine handy, I'd like to introduce you to a room full of AT&T Attorneys.