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Tridgell Reveals Bitkeeper Secrets

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the stare-into-my-secret-places dept.

wallykeyster writes "The Register is reporting on Andrew Tridgell publicly demonstrating how to interoperate with Bitkeeper. During his keynote at the Linux.Conf.Au, Tridgell connected to a BitKeeper site via telnet and used the mostly forgotten "help" tool. Ethical arguments of aside, what really counts as reverse engineering anyway?"

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  1. Re:lol @ #buttes, failures. by slashdot_commentator · · Score: 0, Troll

    What would he accomplish by forking Subversion and spending a year to get a workable replacement of BK? Isn't that equivalent to starting from scratch with GIT?

    And who the HELL are you to be telling Torvalds how he should spend his time?

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