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Tridge Releases BitKeeper-Compatible Tool

Posted by Zonk on from the taking-it-to-the-next-level dept.

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.

2 of 189 comments (clear)

  1. kind of irrelevant now by ahdeoz · · Score: 0, Troll

    Isn't it kind of irrelevant now that nobody uses bitkeeper anymore and it will be broken in the next release that all paying customers will be forced to upgrade to?

  2. Yay for OSS! by black+mariah · · Score: 0, Troll

    We have yet another half-assed implementation of proprietary software for douchebags to mentally masturbate over.

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