Re: What Larry McVoy (bitkeeper) got wrong ....
Dag-Erling Smørgrav <[email protected]>
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Pedro Giffuni <[email protected]> writes: > I was in the process of preparing a port of bitkeeper and I found this: > > https://github.com/bitkeeper-scm/bitkeeper > > "The BitKeeper history needs to be written up but the short version is > that it happened because Larry wanted to help Linux not turn into a > bunch of splintered factions like 386BSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, > DragonFlyBSD, etc. He saw that the problem was one of tooling. ..." This may be poorly written, but what they're trying to say is that there was a serious risk of someone forking Linux solely because they were tired of the Linus bottleneck, and a DVCS would help avoid that. That's not particularly shocking. BitKeeper was the first semi-free DVCS and possibly the second DVCS ever (the first being Sun TeamWare, also by Larry McVoy). Here's a real gem, though: "They stayed in it for three more years before moving to Git because BitKeeper wasn't open source." Because clearly, McVoy throwing a hissy fit and revoking their license had nothing to do with it. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [email protected] _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"