Re: openbkweb-0.0

Christoph Hellwig
2003-02-15T16:48:40Z

On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 12:10:24PM +0000, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> writes:
>
> >On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 11:47:45AM +0000, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote:
> >> Linus, please consider this a request to drop BK _right now_ and
> >> change to another SCM for kernel development. I hate working under a
> >> threat.
>
> >So don't use BK. Why do you care what other people use?
>
> Hey, I heard that before when I was still doing non-Intel platform
> development. "Why do you care that all of your friends start using
> Windows. Just do your own stuff and ignore everything else".
>
> You actually might want to consider caring what the people around you
> do and use because at one point it might affect you and then you can
> only look back and say "if I'd only known that two years ago, I'd be
> able to make a change". [1]

What is the particular problem for you that some kernel developers _do_
use BitKeeper. What got worse to you over the old-style prepatches?