Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 02 Mar 2003 21:32:48 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: BitBucket: GPL-ed *notrademarkhere* clone |
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nickn wrote: > On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 12:12:58PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > >>My counter-question is, why not improve an _existing_ open source SCM to >>read and write BitKeeper files? Why do we need yet another brand new >>project? > > > Or improve BK to export and import on demand of an existing open source SCM.
That may be possible with OpenCM, but it's a bit of a stretch for the other existing SCMs. Regardless, if BK can export metadata to an open format (such as a defined XML spec), then the SCM interchange possibilities are only limited by a programmer's time and imagination.
Jeff
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