<quote>BitKeeper was first utilized by a Linux project in December of 1999, when it was employed by the Linux PowerPC http://penguinppc.org/kernel/project. Then in February of 2002, Linux creator Linus Torvalds decided that BitKeeper was "*the best tool for the job*" and started using it to manage the mainline kernel, an event that received much attention in the free and open source communities [story http://kerneltrap.org/node/444], and beyond. BitMover http://bitmover.com/, the company behind BitKeeper, was founded by its current CEO, Larry McVoy [interviewhttp://kerneltrap.org/node/222], who originally conceived of BitKeeper as a tool to keep Linus from getting burnt out by the growing task of managing the Linux Kernel. Since Linus began using the tool three years ago, the pace of Linux kernel development has doubled </quote> Read full feature at http://kerneltrap.org/node/4966
Praveen A pravi.a@gmail.com writes:
<quote>BitKeeper was first utilized by a Linux project in December of 1999, when it was employed by the Linux PowerPC ...
He is working on a new SCM called `git`. I read the initial documents and it seems to be quite good. It is basically taking the best of everything and put them together.
He is working on a new SCM called `git`.
It is not exactly and SCM but it tries to do the work of an SCM. It is a file system that is distributed over network.
When asked why he called the new software, "git," British slang meaning "a rotten person," he said. "I'm an egotistical bastard, so I name all my projects after myself. First Linux, now git."
Read a story in PC world magazine about it. http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;1852076002;fp;16;fpid;0
The most prominent free software advocate, Richard Stallman, had long called for kernel developers to abandon BitKeeper, arguing that its use was helping to convince kernel developers that the use of "non-free" software was an acceptable practice.
Now that goal has effectively been achieved, because of the impasse between Tridgell and BitMover.
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