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Andrew Morton on Kernel Hacking

Posted by Hemos on from the smart-people-often-say-smart-things dept.

Susie Denmark writes "Linux Format has a brief interview with Andrew Morton, the maintainer of the Linux kernel 2.6 tree. Andrew discusses the debates behind revision control systems (the BitKeeper and CVS), new kernel features and his own -mm tree. Will the issue of using RCSes in the kernel tree ever die down? Does it really matter?"

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  1. Gittish by minginqunt · · Score: 5, Informative

    > Will the issue of using RCSes in the kernel tree ever die down?

    Um, yes. It did so three months ago. It's called git.

  2. Wow by gowen · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm suprised he finds the time, given the heavy load of muck raking biographies that he manages to write.

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  3. You What!! by ObsessiveMathsFreak · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Oh. My. Gods. From TFA

    AM: Well, we never even used CVS. Before BitKeeper we basically weren't using anything - just a bunch of patches sitting on Linus' hard drive and it uploaded occasionally. We had no tracking of what had gone in the kernel at all.

    Someone, please tell me this is a dream. Wake me from this nightmare. Dear gods!! There was no version control on the Linux Kernel!? How? What? When? Where? Why? WTF!!?

    I am not rightly able to comprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that would provoke such a situation.

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