Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 20:46:27 -0500 (EST)
From: Shawn Starr <spstarr@sh0n.net>
To: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [opensource] Re: Petition Against Official Endorsement of
 BitKeeper by Linux Maintainers
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The only problem I have with BK is it's slow on a Pentium 200Mhz, vs
CVS. ;/ Wish that would be fixed.

On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Dave Jones wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 08:05:05PM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote:
>
>  > BTW, bitkeeper doesn't solve the problems I have.  Ditto for CVS.  So I use
>  > neither.  FWIW, BK is closer to what I need.  If it will ever get the things
>  > I need right - I'll use it and damned if I'll hide that.
>
>  Preach on brother Viro.  Faced with the mammoth task of somehow
>  syncing a 6MB diff with Linus, I decided it was time to devote
>  an afternoon (which then turned into an evening) to seeing if
>  bk can make this easier.
>
>  There's nothing in bk that makes my life any more difficult, and
>  potential for it to make it a *lot* easier. And Larry seems
>  open to suggestions, dispelling the "its closed commercial blah" myth.
>
>  Splitting bits up could become even easier soon if Larry and I figure
>  out a way to implement some of my perverse ideas for bending csets
>  into something more flexable than what they currently are.
>
>  Syncing from Linus to my tree isn't difficult, its the splitting bits
>  up to push his way that takes time. bk is halfway towards almost
>  automating this for me.  CVS and friends don't even get to the
>  start line here.
>
>  Hours of diff/grepdiff/filterdiff/vim, vs a few clicky clicky bits
>  in bk citool.
>
>  If you don't like the license, fine. Don't use it, but at least
>  give everyone else the option of making up their own mind before
>  you try to force _your_ opinion on others.
>
> --
> | Dave Jones.        http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
> | SuSE Labs
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