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Coverity: one bug fixed every six minutes

Coverity: one bug fixed every six minutes

Posted Apr 4, 2006 13:11 UTC (Tue) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: Coverity: one bug fixed every six minutes by cventers
Parent article: Coverity: one bug fixed every six minutes

Plenty of developers managed without BK ...

The problem was, as Linus himself said, "Linus can't scale".

BitKeeper was needed to reduce the load on Linus. And, fortunately for us, BK solved the problem of how to scale Linus, so when BK went away it was easy to write a new tool to do the same thing. Without BK, we would never have had git, so on balance BK almost certainly was good, even if it did cause a few problems along the way.

Cheers,
Wol

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BK all for the good -- except for poor lm.

Posted Apr 6, 2006 1:03 UTC (Thu) by xoddam (subscriber, #2322) [Link]

> Without BK, we would never have had git, so on balance
> BK almost certainly was good

Yes. Linus stood for a while on the shoulders of a very
cantankerous giant, who like scaffolding proved to be
dispensable once the bridge was completed :-)


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