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Date:      Sat, 1 May 1999 13:09:38 -0700 (PWT)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        Harlan Stenn <Harlan.Stenn@pfcs.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: BitKeeper (was Re: solid NFS patch #6 avail for -current - need testers files) 
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.04.9905011309260.16888-100000@feral.com>
In-Reply-To: <19432.925584866@brown.pfcs.com>

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> As I understand it, BitKeeper is indeed based on SCCS, and is a superset of 
> it.  The performance hit of SCCS has been "solved".
> 
> There are several "significant" commercial users of BitKeeper waiting for 
> the first production release, and Larry McVoy seems to be a bit of a maniac 
> when it comes to things being production stable.
> 
> He said that a CVS->BitKeeper conversion tool is not far off.

Cool!


> 
> I'm mostly interested in the "lines of development" features, the ability 
> to check in various revisions of my *local* work, the ability to apply a 
> patch set as an atomic unit, and several of the GUI tools.
> 

Amen to that....




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