From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 17 12:37:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07D1C1121A; Wed, 17 Feb 1999 12:36:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from localhost (dfr@localhost) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.2/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA62183; Wed, 17 Feb 1999 19:57:16 GMT (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 19:57:16 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: Eivind Eklund Cc: Wes Peters , John Polstra , Jamie Bowden , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD mention in LWN interview with A.C. In-Reply-To: <19990217143130.G69668@bitbox.follo.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Eivind Eklund wrote: > On Tue, Feb 16, 1999 at 03:49:51PM -0700, Wes Peters wrote: > > As I said, Perforce is an excellent product with much to recommend it, > > but probably not the best solution for FreeBSD. What we have works quite > > well, because it was developed by highly motivated developers to pretty > > much do exactly what FreeBSD needs. If only *every* development project > > were this lucky. > > > > Especially Linux... ;^) > > http://www.bitkeeper.com/ > > Looks quite good. It is missing a number of features from my > favourite (but not yet implemented) design, but it also has a number > of nice aspects that I've missed... BitKeeper sounds surprisingly good actually. I particularly like the idea of trees of repositories. It would make life much easier for larger projects (like architecture ports or renovating a major bus) which are being worked on by more than one person but which shouldn't happen in the main repository. Support for file renaming is cool too. I'm not suggesting we change, mind you. Give it a year or two to settle and see how well it works for the Linux folks. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message