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Tridge Releases BitKeeper-Compatible Tool
Peter Willis writes "Looking at Freshmeat today (a part of OSTG) it seems Andrew Tridgell has released the BitKeeper-compatible source code management client mentioned on slashdot recently, called SourcePuller. As part of the downloads available for the project you can also get dump files which detail how to pull data from BK trees without the use of libsp. From the README: 'SourcePuller is not intended to be a full replacement for BitKeeper. Instead, you should use SourcePuller as an interoperability tool for situations where you cannot use bk itself. SourcePuller is missing a large amount of core functionality from BitKeeper, and thus is not suitable as a full replacement.'" Article available about the release on The Register.
...so goes the soap opera that has become the Linux community
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You heard it hear first, Tridge is anti-comments. If you want GCC to continue to support comments, speak up now or forever hold your peace.
There are no trails. There are no trees out here.
A big huge middle finger!
From the source code I've seen and debugged, it seems most programmers are anti-comments.
"heard it hear first"
/. comment, and it's in my comment.
Jesus God, that's one of the dumbest fuckups I've seen in a
There are no trails. There are no trees out here.
A tool that lets you Pull stuff out of BitKeeper. How did he manage to avoid naming it BitPull?
And with the support of the community, and a lot of developer work, they'll be able to reduce Arch's 'help' text down to only 10 words, making it the most powerful source control system.
You're kidding right? What do you call all of that whitespace that we sprinkle around our code? Those are comments.
If a block of code is especially self-contained or tricky, then it is surrounded by two carriage-returns before the block and two carriage-returns after the block.
If some statements are part of a loop, then we gratuitously indent them. That's not for the compiler's benefit; those are comments.
Don't even get me started on our extreme generosity in supplying names (not just types!) in our function and method prototypes. What, you want us to draw you a map?
BTW, I would submit more Insightful comments in my code if only my peers with good karma had Mod Points at code review time.
Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it. --Mark Twain
Two "+5 Funny" out of the same post? I bow down to your slash-skills.
Isn't that Wendy's new Logo?