Re: BitBucket: GPL-ed KitBeeper clone

Roman Zippel
2003-03-09T04:22:02Z

Hi,

On Sat, 8 Mar 2003, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> None of these are issues for broken systems like CVS or SVN, since they
> have a central repository, so there _cannot_ be multiple concurrent
> renames that have to be merged much later.

It is possible, you only have to remember that the file foo.c doesn't have
to be called foo.c,v in the repository. SVN should be able to handle this,
it's just lacking important merging mechanisms.
This is actually a key feature I want to see in a SCM system - the ability
to keep multiple developments within the same repository. I want to pull
other source tress into a branch and compare them with other branches and
merge them into new branches.

> Sepoarate repostitories and SCCS file formats have nothing to do with the
> real problem. Distribution is key, not the repository format.

I agree, what I was trying to say is that the SCCS format makes a few
things more complex than they had to be.

bye, Roman