From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 2 Mar 2003 13:29:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 2 Mar 2003 13:29:00 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([63.209.29.3]:14984 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 2 Mar 2003 13:28:58 -0500 Message-ID: <3E624FD4.3020807@zytor.com> Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2003 10:39:16 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020828 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, sv MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeff Garzik CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: BitBucket: GPL-ed *notrademarkhere* clone References: <200303020011.QAA13450@adam.yggdrasil.com> <3E615C38.7030609@pobox.com> <20030302014039.GC1364@dualathlon.random> <3E616224.6040003@pobox.com> <3E623B9A.8050405@pobox.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jeff Garzik wrote: > > My counter-question is, why not improve an _existing_ open source SCM to > read and write BitKeeper files? Why do we need yet another brand new > project? > I don't disagree with that. However, the question you posited was "would one be useful", and I think the answer is unequivocally yes. Furthermore, I don't agree with the "compatibility == bad" assumption I read into your message. > AFAICS, a BK clone would just further divide resources and mindshare. I > personally _want_ an open source SCM that is as good as, or better, than > BitKeeper. The open source world needs that, and BitKeeper needs the > competition. A BK clone may work with BitKeeper files, but I don't see > it ever being as good as BK, because it will always be playing catch-up. Yes. Personally, I've spent quite a bit of time with OpenCM after a suggestion from Ted T'so. It's looking quite promising to me, although I haven't yet used it to maintain a large project. -hpa