On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 10:17:19PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I haven't used darcs so can't comment. However, compared to CVS, > Subversion is divine. I love it to death and would never go back. >
Amen! > I wonder if Linus at least considered for a nanosecond whether it > would have been faster to mutate the Subversion code base into what > he wanted rather than start from scratch. I'm sure the Subversion > developers would have jumped at the chance and worked round the clock > to win the kernel guys to their camp. Your suspicions seem valid. > The more I think about it, the more odd it seems that Git exists--- > unless there is some obvious reason you couldn't convert Subversion > into Git that I'm not seeing. > Excellent point. Andrew's point about Perforce is also well taken. Perforce allows unrestricted use for any OSS project, and they, too, would have been very accommodation. Linus has shown with BitKeeper that proprietary doesn't bother him, so that's not an apparent issue. I appreciate loyalty, and if he doesn't want to upstage his fiend, that's OK by me. But it does seem like a waste of the kernel developers' energy to be dinking with SCM systems instead of the kernel. -- Lan Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Guy, SCM Specialist 858-354-0616 -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
