Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 5 Mar 2002 20:46:27 -0500 (EST) | From | Shawn Starr <> | Subject | Re: [opensource] Re: Petition Against Official Endorsement of BitKeeper by Linux Maintainers |
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The only problem I have with BK is it's slow on a Pentium 200Mhz, vs CVS. ;/ Wish that would be fixed.
On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 08:05:05PM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote: > > > BTW, bitkeeper doesn't solve the problems I have. Ditto for CVS. So I use > > neither. FWIW, BK is closer to what I need. If it will ever get the things > > I need right - I'll use it and damned if I'll hide that. > > Preach on brother Viro. Faced with the mammoth task of somehow > syncing a 6MB diff with Linus, I decided it was time to devote > an afternoon (which then turned into an evening) to seeing if > bk can make this easier. > > There's nothing in bk that makes my life any more difficult, and > potential for it to make it a *lot* easier. And Larry seems > open to suggestions, dispelling the "its closed commercial blah" myth. > > Splitting bits up could become even easier soon if Larry and I figure > out a way to implement some of my perverse ideas for bending csets > into something more flexable than what they currently are. > > Syncing from Linus to my tree isn't difficult, its the splitting bits > up to push his way that takes time. bk is halfway towards almost > automating this for me. CVS and friends don't even get to the > start line here. > > Hours of diff/grepdiff/filterdiff/vim, vs a few clicky clicky bits > in bk citool. > > If you don't like the license, fine. Don't use it, but at least > give everyone else the option of making up their own mind before > you try to force _your_ opinion on others. > > -- > | Dave Jones. http://www.codemonkey.org.uk > | SuSE Labs > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > >
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