Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261989AbVBPKVU (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Feb 2005 05:21:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261999AbVBPKVU (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Feb 2005 05:21:20 -0500 Received: from cam-admin0.cambridge.arm.com ([193.131.176.58]:56803 "EHLO cam-admin0.cambridge.arm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261989AbVBPKVQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Feb 2005 05:21:16 -0500 To: Clemens Schwaighofer Cc: kernel@crazytrain.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed References: <20050214020802.GA3047@bitmover.com> <58cb370e05021404081e53f458@mail.gmail.com> <20050214150820.GA21961@optonline.net> <20050214154015.GA8075@bitmover.com> <7579f7fb0502141017f5738d1@mail.gmail.com> <20050214185624.GA16029@bitmover.com> <1108469967.3862.21.camel@crazytrain> <42131637.2070801@tequila.co.jp> From: Catalin Marinas Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 10:21:36 +0000 In-Reply-To: <42131637.2070801@tequila.co.jp> (Clemens Schwaighofer's message of "Wed, 16 Feb 2005 18:45:27 +0900") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1222 Lines: 28 Clemens Schwaighofer wrote: > On 02/15/2005 09:19 PM, kernel wrote: >> With all of the complaining about BK you'd think there'd be an equal >> alternative. > > there is no need for that. There is already one. Subversion is a more > than mature VCS. Apache group is switching to it, gcc people are > strongly thinking about it, and those two are _huge_ projects with tons > of developers, patches, trunks, etc. Subversion and BK are quite different. The first one is snapshot oriented and the latter is changeset oriented (I find this a more powerful concept). Subversion is not distributed (you have some helper scripts but I don't know how stable they are), which is somehow mandatory for the way Linux is developed. Subversion also lacks any smart merging capabilities (it doesn't even remember what was merged). GNU Arch is probably as close as you can get regarding features and performance (I can't compare the two since I've never used BK). Catalin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/