Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2016 10:31:15 +1000 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Cc: Pedro Giffuni <pfg@FreeBSD.org>, chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: What Larry McVoy (bitkeeper) got wrong .... Message-ID: <20160724003115.GY78278@eureka.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <868twsqn1a.fsf@desk.des.no> References: <44e4450e-8dbb-f401-bd5c-df503f7a4ef8@FreeBSD.org> <868twsqn1a.fsf@desk.des.no>
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--vS2hnRoLMmJ4tslQ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Saturday, 23 July 2016 at 19:31:13 +0200, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote: > Pedro Giffuni <pfg@FreeBSD.org> 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. I'm left wondering about the accuracy of the statement, though. I didn't think that this was the reason lm wrote Bitkeeper. I contacted him, but he wasn't much help. > 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. I think this is a nice way of glossing over the ugly facts. I don't see that it's wrong. Greg -- Sent from my desktop computer. Finger grog@FreeBSD.org for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft mail program reports problems, please read http://lemis.com/broken-MUA --vS2hnRoLMmJ4tslQ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEARECAAYFAleUDFMACgkQIubykFB6QiOtugCfWhgEBsWZTALvqqrLQRWOxGJG 7+AAn3fFKMhCgGerk2V1L8L/nNXCjBAP =MnTx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --vS2hnRoLMmJ4tslQ--
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