Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

Dmitry Torokhov
2005-02-21T06:56:51Z

On Monday 21 February 2005 00:43, Miles Bader wrote:
> "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> writes:
> > The "cost" of using BK seems to be primarily more theoretical, and
> > ideological, than real.
>
> I've never used BK (not allowed to), but some things I've read about it
> sound quite annoying. For instance:
>
> * Every source tree contains your entire repository => massive disk usage

It's not too bad as you just hardlink most of the trees to their parent.

> * Must "unlock" files before working on them ("bk edit"); I recall
> doing this with RCS, and it was, well, a real pain.

I think there is a setting to have them checked out for editing automatically.

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Dmitry