From owner-freebsd-current Sat May 1 11: 3:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F17ED14E06 for ; Sat, 1 May 1999 11:03:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sprice@hiwaay.net) Received: from localhost (sprice@localhost) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.1a/8.9.0) with ESMTP id NAA00675; Sat, 1 May 1999 13:03:17 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sat, 1 May 1999 13:03:17 -0500 (CDT) From: Steve Price To: Matthew Dillon Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BitKeeper (was Re: solid NFS patch #6 avail for -current - need testers files) In-Reply-To: <199905011724.KAA75931@apollo.backplane.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 1 May 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: # #:BitKeeper should be ready soon. #: #:Once it's been proven stable, might it be a better alternative to CVS? #: #:H # # Maybe, but we wouldn't know for a couple of years. You don't just go # trusting 15+ years worth of source history to a program that has just # barely been written. I think the Linux people are making a huge mistake # by not using CVS. From what I gather (and I could very well be wrong), but I think BitKeeper is somewhat based on SCCS. I'm not advocating that we ditch CVS either, just that BitKeeper may not be as new and fresh as some would like us to believe. Looks like an old friend (or nemisis) dressed in a new set of rags. :) -steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message