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Linus Drops BitKeeper

Posted by Zonk on from the free-as-in-beer-not-free-as-in-freedom dept.

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.

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  1. Breaking News! by Qbertino · · Score: 1, Redundant

    The Pope died. ...
    Honestly, didn't we have this two days ago?
    BTW, he said n ot to bug him with Subversion. He's not going to use it because it's not the ideal tool for the job. So say the Subeversion people themselves. He's currently checking out Monotone. But as I said: We had that 2 days ago.

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  2. CVS? by MHobbit · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Why not use CVS? CVS is a very mature method of source repositories, and has proved itself many times. Though Subversion may hold potential, why not forego the wait and use something that is used widely, especiall on SourceForge.net?

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  3. Re:Hmm. by Frank+T.+Lofaro+Jr. · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Well yeah, he could go to CVS and get some headache medicine, he'll probably need it.

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