Bitkeeper again open source...
https://www.bitkeeper.org/ Git now a mistake??? There's a gigantic dose of "nothing mentioned about why it got taken private way back when"... -- When confronted by a difficult problem, solve it by reducing it to the question, "How would the Lone Ranger handle this?"
On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 01:37:43PM -0400, Christopher Browne wrote:
Git now a mistake???
There's a gigantic dose of "nothing mentioned about why it got taken private way back when"...
Well bitkeeper was never open source. Bit keeper used to allow free use of bitkeeper by open source projects, but some people did not like the idea of their code revision history being stuck in some proprietary vendor's product so they reverse engineered the data format and published tools to access it, and bitkeeper had a hissyfit and took away free use entirely. I suppose with the popularity of git these days, they have a lot less business left, so going open source and relying on selling support services might be the only way to stay relevant. It does have some features git doesn't have (and vice versa of course). So going open source is totally new for them. The past was about use of the closed source code for free by open source projects. Not the same thing. -- Len Sorensen
On 10 May 2016 at 13:56, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 01:37:43PM -0400, Christopher Browne wrote:
Git now a mistake???
And git is great, so it is not a mistake.
I guess I left out my favorite would-be best-ever news article title... "Arch Duke Ferdinand Found Alive: WWI A Mistake!!!" Bitkeeper found alive... Git a misteak ;-) It is interesting how much SCM has flowered since; I would not regard it as a mistake that people have tried various things, and had some decent successes. -- When confronted by a difficult problem, solve it by reducing it to the question, "How would the Lone Ranger handle this?"
On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 02:48:53PM -0400, Christopher Browne wrote:
I guess I left out my favorite would-be best-ever news article title...
"Arch Duke Ferdinand Found Alive: WWI A Mistake!!!"
Bitkeeper found alive... Git a misteak ;-)
It is interesting how much SCM has flowered since; I would not regard it as a mistake that people have tried various things, and had some decent successes.
Well CVS was awful to use, but it helped a lot of people and was better than nothing. At least slightly. In some cases. Subversion may very well have been a mistake, but CVS was pretty awful, and git did not exist yet. -- Len Sorensen
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