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The kernel and BitKeeper part waysThe kernel and BitKeeper part waysPosted Apr 10, 2005 19:54 UTC (Sun) by smurf (subscriber, #17840)In reply to: The kernel and BitKeeper part ways by daniel Parent article: The kernel and BitKeeper part ways
Reading the repository is simple, it's a souped-up SCCS format. Reading that isn't something the Bitkeeper people are able to notice in the first place, plus it's comparatively simple, and so is getting out the metadata. You don't need to generate test files for that, just look at any files in the Linux kernel tree.
What the reverse-engineering job obviously was about (at least from my remote-viewing crystal ball PoV) is to figure out the protocol used to pull changes form one repository into another. *That* shows up on openlogging.org, especially when you do it 100 times in a row to figure out which changes trigger which protocol events (a classic reverse engineering technique certain people should be *very* familiar with, if the rumor is to be believed).
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