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.

Comments

How about... Arch or Monotone

[ikewillis]

Arch and Monotone are both GPL-licensed distributed development tools, and retain a BitKeeper-like distributed development model which Linux prefers.

Somehow Arch was immediately mentioned on the original thread about Linus's intent to switch away from BitKeeper, but somehow only Subversion has been mentioned on this one. Arch was created specifically with the goal of replacing BitKeeper as the SCM for the Linux kernel source, as it says on their web page:

It is somewhat well known, these days, that some of the core developers of the Linux kernel are using a revision control system which is not free software. There is a need to create a free software alternative to that system and to do so is one of the goals of the arch project

Re:*NOTE TO MODERATORS*

[A beautiful mind]

Thing is, this "new story" brought nothing new. We knew that he DID drop bitkeeper, from the three 5,informative moderated posts which linked to LKML in the previous story. Now we can read that very LKML announcement in this slashdot story aswell. We knew that he won't pick subversion from the previous story and from the subversion developers aswell.

What is new, that Linus wrote his own SCM (README here)

Maybe it will appear in 1-2 days as another slashdot story?

Re:Three Words

[Greyfox]

Maybe he could put the hurts on IBM and get them to open up CMVC. I don't believe they're still selling it or anything, so it doesn't really benefit them to keep it closed. And since IBM is nominally our friend and since it would probably be good marketing, I could see them considering it.

The Java CMVC client is actually pretty nice. Sucks less than VSS by a good bit.