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.

Comments

Why not GNU Arch?

[Flywheels of Fire]

I'm surprised nobody considered GNU Arch http://www.gnu.org/software/gnu-arch/ to replace BitKeeper - it was probably started in direct response to the Linux Kernel using a non-free tool.

I must say I haven't used it, but from reviews and comparisons I've read, it seems to be a good tool.

sourceforge

[Suppafly]

I love sourceforge projects that essentially nothing on them.

thanks spacktard!

[Anonymous Coward]

thanks spacktard!

Re:Who Gives a F?ck?

[Anonymous Coward]

That's "Who gives a Fork?" and "fscking fanboys." I mean really, try to have some class.

kind of irrelevant now

[ahdeoz]

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?

ATTENTION: THOSE CONSIDERING LINUX AS A MARKET

[Anonymous Coward]

This is what always happens. Bring your product to Linux and they love you, then they kill you.

Lesson: dont bother.

Yay for OSS!

[black mariah]

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