RE: Subversion use for Kernel work
From: Leeuw van der, Tim <tim.leeuwvander_at_nl.unisys.com>
Date: 2003-02-26 21:55:24 CET
Without having read the rest of this thread here yet, I would like to say
Several ppl on lkml have voiced their opinions on SVN, but to the best of my
I have not seen since then any comments from *HIM* that he is considering to
So I don't think that there's any opportunity at all, at the moment.
Besides, I doubt that SVN is already ready for such a task, but who knows, I
With regards,
--Tim
-----Original Message-----
There is a rather fascinating read at:
http://kt.zork.net/kernel-traffic/latest.html
(February 23 issue - might not be 'latest' in a few days)
Some excerpts are given further below.
The kernel is being kept in BitKeeper, which is a proprietary system, but
At the moment, there does exist an opportunity for the Subversion community
If it is ready.
BobG
===== Kernel Traffic excerpts below ======
Andrea liked the 'Binglish' comparison, but said:
...
The kernel CVS in more than enough for my/our needs and I thank
---- And Henning P. Schmiedehausen also said to Larry: Linus stated in public that he was/is unhappy with CVS. Without Bitkeeper he might use Subversion today. But by using Bitkeeper he made it possible that you and your company started using him as your posterboy for the "SCM good enough for Linus Torvalds to use". This is IMHO not correct. BK is just "the first SCM which came along and was good enough for Linus Torvalds to use it". I do remember Linus saying that he wants to try out BitKeeper for the 2.5 development tree and if it does not work out, switch to something else in the 2.6, 2.7... cycle. The rift that the whole BitKeeper/BitMover stuff has opened in the kernel developer community IMHO justifies such a step forward . I'd like to see SVN to be used as an alternative tool. Not because it is better (it probably is not, but I haven't had a chance to try out BK because I don't qualify for the free license) than BK but because it has no strings attached to its usage. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@subversion.tigris.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-help@subversion.tigris.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@subversion.tigris.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-help@subversion.tigris.orgReceived on Wed Feb 26 21:56:30 2003 |
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