Show HN: BitKeeper – Enterprise-ready version control, now open-source
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Re: Show HN: BitKeeper – Enterprise-ready version control, now open-source
#2Well, that took a long time... I wonder what changed in the eleven years that Git and Mercurial were deployed to replace bitkeeper.
Re: Show HN: BitKeeper – Enterprise-ready version control, now open-source
#3There is an official mirror on GitHub:
Re: Show HN: BitKeeper – Enterprise-ready version control, now open-source
#4Lots of cross platform goodies in there as well as some interesting data structures. For example, our list data structure is in lines.c, it's extremely small for a small list and scales nicely to 50K items:
http://bkbits.net/u/bk/bugfix/src/libc/utils/lines.c?PAGE=an...
Re: Show HN: BitKeeper – Enterprise-ready version control, now open-source
#5Why would I want to use this over git or mercurial?
Re: Show HN: BitKeeper – Enterprise-ready version control, now open-source
#6There is an official mirror on GitHub: https://github.com/bitkeeper-scm/bitkeeper
It's a read only mirror, the read/write mirror is on bkbits.net. But we'll maintain the mirror (or you can, bk has fast-export which creates a perfect mirror in git).
Re: Show HN: BitKeeper – Enterprise-ready version control, now open-source
#7This is very cool... but also, kind of a bit late. The market already adopted git and the momentum is there. Unless there is a trivial way to switch back and forth from git or there is something that is orders of magnitude better, this is a decade too late.
Re: Show HN: BitKeeper – Enterprise-ready version control, now open-source
#8Why would I want to use this over git or mercurial?
You wouldn't, unless you have very specific niche needs. They're pretty upfront about it:
>Why use BitKeeper when there are lots of great alternatives?
>For many projects, the answer is: you shouldn’t.
Re: Show HN: BitKeeper – Enterprise-ready version control, now open-source
#9For people who don't know the history -- McVoy offered free bitkeeper licenses to various open source projects, and the Linux kernel switched to it.
After Andrew Tridgell (SAMBA, among other projects) reverse-engineered the bitkeeper protocol [1] in order to create his own client, the license was rescinded for everyone.
As a result, Linus wrote git.
Re: Show HN: BitKeeper – Enterprise-ready version control, now open-source
#10This is very cool... but also, kind of a bit late. The market already adopted git and the momentum is there. Unless there is a trivial way to switch back and forth from git or there is something that is orders of magnitude better, this is a decade too late.
'A bit late' might be understatement of the day :)