From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Zhi Li Subject: Re: early days before git's invention Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 11:39:05 +0800 Message-ID: <2986b3940911081939s1bc78ab0m8e9d8f040af87a70@mail.gmail.com> References: <2986b3940911080423p4ccfe279ia00c995e1ea23fb9@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Jakub Narebski X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Nov 09 04:39:14 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1N7L62-0007aF-BF for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:39:14 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753538AbZKIDjB convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Nov 2009 22:39:01 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753248AbZKIDjB (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Nov 2009 22:39:01 -0500 Received: from mail-pz0-f188.google.com ([209.85.222.188]:61481 "EHLO mail-pz0-f188.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753189AbZKIDjA convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Nov 2009 22:39:00 -0500 Received: by pzk26 with SMTP id 26so1836602pzk.4 for ; Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:39:06 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=aL/a2Amw8XlEVn/XPKHMbJkQDcqTjffMXBo6yxOeaU4=; b=RosGU8YfereRRpo+7o1vGjfu/SemVZMv2CNpNVYeJb1hb9RXTIq5s0RaY98V13fVbC Cbni3pXx5Mp6F8ZRKywxWDNK+SgPkV5/vd5Io6OkNwh64s+FaVvGgvrPpAv2yn7ATrNb WXJIoBYpUt2gsSl20hgv9AuWuKltvuw1OgLj8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=S6lUuCEsZatNVNvXnrIdLofHpyQrCHcXsFJ0xQza4N/xEjUhKkbtPipFjVtjE9VOoM YTYwdL/e+vaMJdPTFed6MzxK8jLmYRZXlXGV0LeR/aorh0wJ6R/xr0v80xnS+sueZMKz Sd+DQraFQYMbl7678urNjIhpnW3dtu65+NjN0= Received: by 10.142.74.16 with SMTP id w16mr782467wfa.200.1257737945534; Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:39:05 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Thank you all for the information! Zhi On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 9:29 PM, Jakub Narebski wrote= : > > Zhi Li writes: > > > I have a question maybe not suitable to be put on this list. I'm ju= st > > curious on git and Linux history. As what was said on wiki, Linux > > kernel was maintained by BitKeeper, then for some reason, BitKeeper > > can not be used, so git was invented. My question is what was used > > before BitKeeper, CVS? I don't think so. Then, just using file to > > manage? > > For why BitKeeper could not be used, see: > =A0http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_(software)#Early_history > =A0http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitHistory > =A0http://kerneltrap.org/node/4982 > =A0http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/article/129776/after_controversy_tor= valds_begins_work_git?fp=3D16&fpid=3D0 > > =A0http://better-scm.berlios.de/bk/demise-of-gratis-bitkeeper.html > =A0http://better-scm.berlios.de/bk/what-bitmover-got-wrong.html > =A0http://better-scm.berlios.de/bk/the-bitkeeper-ghost.html > > Before BitKeeper Linux used tarballs (for releases) plus patches (for > changes); patches were send by email (on LKML). =A0Some maintainers u= sed > tools like Quilt (or custom scripts) for patch management. > > > P.S. FreeBSD (IIRC) used / uses CVS for version control, but it has > quite different development model than Linux. > > -- > Jakub Narebski > Poland >