Bitkeeper, the universe, and everything

Bitkeeper, the universe, and everything

Posted Feb 24, 2004 23:26 UTC (Tue) by aya (guest, #19767)
In reply to: Bitkeeper, the universe, and everything by lm
Parent article: subversion 1.0 is released

Hi!

It's convenient that you mention speed, Robert Collins has been working on code lately to speed up arch by cutting down on system calls for file info. This probably won't be merged until 1.3, though. (The current release is 1.2-pre2.)

I guess I'm not qualified to say anything about BK's merge capabilities; I'm not going to use the free version, since I may hack arch in the future if I have time, and I'd rather not budget a commercial license. (Please note, this isn't a license flame. It's your software, it's your license, and I'm fine with that. In any case, I know better than to try to resurrect a horse that's been kicked to a million deaths already ... Besides, I'm glad the kernel team is using something better than the previous process.)

I do know that I don't really have a handle on arch's merging features, though, so at the very least your comment about documentation rings true. UI and documentation are commonly cited as GNU Arch shortcomings. Still, from what I've seen, arch's merge operations aren't *that* far off from BK's, though I suspect BK's are easier to use overall. The general use pattern is the same; develop in a local branch/repository of a project, filter changes into an integration branch, and have the project lead merge from your integration branch.

I will say this about the license, though: the BKL doesn't seem to be linked from any page on bitmover.com anywhere anymore. To read it, you seem to have to download and run Bitkeeper. I realize people bitch about the thing all the time, but that's not good for people who want to read the license to see if they can use BK before downloading it ...

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