Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 20:34:07 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: eivind@FreeBSD.ORG (Eivind Eklund) Cc: gsutter@pobox.com, jobaldwi@vt.edu, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PR broken? was Re: Linux not FreeBSD? Message-ID: <199906292034.NAA24772@usr08.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <19990629101846.F56075@bitbox.follo.net> from "Eivind Eklund" at Jun 29, 99 10:18:46 am
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> > > Did I mention getting rid of CVS? Ah, yes, I think I did. (It is > > > necessary in order to get a decent handle on branched development - > > > and you need branched development if you're going to do research.) > > > > Perforce, perchance? [ ... ] > I believe FreeBSD needs something that allows external parties to > create branches/Lines of Development (for their own use) as easily as > the FreeBSD committers can. There are no present alternatives that > cover this well; I know of two systems at various stages of > development with this capability, but none that are finished. Larry McVoy's BitKeeper is finished. It's currently in beta, but this is supposedly just because of the license writeup issues, not for code reasons: http://www.bitkeeper.com/bk06.html Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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