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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@novell.com>
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Subject: Re: BK kernel workflow
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Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 08:14:25AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
>>Your point is pointless. No such distributed revision control system 
>>exists. And without BK, the people who have worked on them wouldn't 
> 
> 
> arch exists and it's exactly as distributed as BK.


It doesn't scale or merge as well as BK though.

I've told Larry that, if both BK and <open source tool> were completely 
equal in terms of function, I'd use the open source tool.  Neither arch 
(scalability) nor subversion (scalability + stability) are there yet.

	Jeff


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