[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Git started out as a wimpy hack to manage diffs and now Linus has
handed it off to a new maintainer who is talking about a 1.0
version coming out soon!? "All the feature are in I just mainly
need bug fixes....."
Incredible! Was BitKeeper really that wimpy of a product that
you could replace it in one summer vacation?
No, what it means was that Linus was just that pigheaded.
CVS would have been *just fine*. Subversion would have been *just
fine*. However, if he really wanted patchsets (which is what git does,
but badly) then darcs or arch would have been *just fine*.
Or, he could have used Perforce which has a license which allows open
source use without the weird restrictions like BitKeeper.
Any single one of those projects would have worked very nicely and the
extra attention from the kernel hackers would have been welcomed by any
of those projects. In addition, the open source community would have
gained a much stronger version control system.
Instead, we have yet another half-implemented, mostly incompatible
version control system.
Given Linus' apparent attachment to McVoy, one wonders whether Linus is
explicitly *not* using one of the existing ones so that they don't
surpass BitKeeper too quickly.
darcs, in particular, seems to be garnering an unusual amount of
attention lately.
-a
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