So, Bitkeeper is 2x better than the competition?

So, Bitkeeper is 2x better than the competition?

Posted May 13, 2004 15:36 UTC (Thu) by vmole (subscriber, #111)
In reply to: So, Bitkeeper is 2x better than the competition? by piman
Parent article: Bitkeeper after the storm - Part 1 (NewsForge)

I suspect that SVN, Arch, or Monotone would show gains comparable to BitKeeper, at least in Linus's individual productivity.

Nope. Linus's main problem is dealing with patch merging, and merging multiple trees (aka branches). None of those tools comes close to BK in dealing with merging. Linus didn't use SCM tools before BK because the tools available to him didn't solve the problem. A lot of the BK feature set was driven by Linus's feedback.

Now, CVS/SVN/etc. may be sufficient for your needs - they are for mine, or at least the cost of BK is still greater than the cost of the extra time I spend with CVS and SVN. But pretending they are currently equivalent to BK will just mean they never get better.

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