There is nothing disreputable about "free software only". Sometimes it is not realistic or practical. I love free software, but I also realize that having a dedicated company supporting a product as complicated as SCM is very important. Also, there isn't just a "marginal" improvement as you imply. But then again, you haven't tried BitKeeper, have you?
"I think Aegis does all of this". Are you sure? Have you tried Aegis? Really put it to use? Compared it to Bitkeeper? Tried using it for code projects as well as documentation and sysadmin projects (i.e. where test cases don't apply). If you have and like Aegis better, then more power to you. Claiming "I think it does this" isn't really that compelling....
No one is forcing you to do anything. It would be interesting to know why you feel that your freedom is threatened.
There are no free alternatives to BitKeeper.
(even Clearcase and perforce come up lacking compared to bitkeeper)
Please tell me what GPL/BSD revision control systems support:
ChangeSets
Distributed repositories
Data integrity checks (and no, Subversion and arch
don't do checksums). Look on the Subversion mailing list to see how the lack of checksums bit them when they were experiencing network corruption.
No loss of information when merging
Useful GUI tools -- checkout bk's revtool and fm3tool
In other words, you haven't seem to have done any homework. You are just another "free software only" weenie.
signed,
Just a happy bitkeeper user for the last two years.
And you point is what? That linus should use
arch? Have you actually tried using arch? arch is not ready for prime time and it certainly is not as useful as bitkeeper.
Do you have five or six years to wait for a GPLed replacement of bitkeeper? Do you really think that it is easy to create a sophisticated version control system? The
Subversion folks have several full-time developers and have been working for two years on their VC system and all they are trying to do
is to replace CVS (and Subversion is a BSD license, by the way and not GPL)
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"I think Aegis does all of this". Are you sure? Have you tried Aegis? Really put it to use? Compared it to Bitkeeper? Tried using it for code projects as well as documentation and sysadmin projects (i.e. where test cases don't apply). If you have and like Aegis better, then more power to you. Claiming "I think it does this" isn't really that compelling....
No one is forcing you to do anything. It would be interesting to know why you feel that your freedom is threatened.
Please tell me what GPL/BSD revision control systems support:
ChangeSets
Distributed repositories
Data integrity checks (and no, Subversion and arch don't do checksums). Look on the Subversion mailing list to see how the lack of checksums bit them when they were experiencing network corruption.
No loss of information when merging
Useful GUI tools -- checkout bk's revtool and fm3tool
In other words, you haven't seem to have done any homework. You are just another "free software only" weenie.
signed,
Just a happy bitkeeper user for the last two years.
Do you have any technical problems with BitKeeper or are you just a "it must be GPL" weenie?
And yes, I've been using BitKeeper for 2 years and have been very pleased with it.
And you point is what? That linus should use arch? Have you actually tried using arch? arch is not ready for prime time and it certainly is not as useful as bitkeeper.
And by the way, it is 'bout and not Bought.