Show HN: BitKeeper – Enterprise-ready version control, now open-source

Post by tikhonj » Tue, May 10, 2016, 5:55 PM UTC

bcantrill wrote: post #37

The grand irony is that Larry was one of the earliest advocates of open sourcing the operating system at Sun[1] -- and believed that by the time Sun finally collectively figured it out and made it happen (in 2005), it was a decade or more too late.[2] So on the one hand, you can view the story of BitKeeper with respect to open source as almost Greek in its tragic scope: every reason that Larry outlined for "sourcewar…

Post by adharmad » Tue, May 10, 2016, 5:57 PM UTC

luckydude wrote: post #41

bcantrill wrote: post #37

The grand irony is that Larry was one of the earliest advocates of open sourcing the operating system at Sun[1] -- and believed that by the time Sun finally collectively figured it out and made it happen (in 2005), it was a decade or more too late.[2] So on the one hand, you can view the story of BitKeeper with respect to open source as almost Greek in its tragic scope: every reason that Larry outlined for "sourcewar…

Yeah this irony is not lost on me. But in both cases, the companies acted in self interest. Neither had the guts to walk away from their existing revenue stream. It's hard to say what would have happened. It's been an interesting ride and if nothing else, BK was the inspiration for Git and Hg, that's a contribution to the field. And maybe, just maybe, people will look at the SCCS weave and realize that Tichy pulled t…

Post by luckydude » Tue, May 10, 2016, 5:58 PM UTC

benjarrell wrote: post #62

Does this come with any sort of web interface?

Post by vvanders » Tue, May 10, 2016, 6:04 PM UTC

stonemetal wrote: post #34

luckydude wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Probably the single biggest reason, aside from it's easier to use than git's CLI, is that it has sub-modules that work exactly like files do in a repository. No extra options, just clone/pull/push/commit/etc. Full on distributed workflow. BitKeeper itself is a collection of repositories. Download an install image, install, and clone it: $ bk clone http://bkbits.net/u/bk/bugfix $ cd bugfix $ bk here PRODUCT default $…

It claims to be able to handle binary files well which would be a big deal to game development. They have mostly passed on git and mercurial since they can't handle game assets.

Post by peonicles » Tue, May 10, 2016, 6:32 PM UTC

adharmad wrote: post #63

luckydude wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah this irony is not lost on me. But in both cases, the companies acted in self interest. Neither had the guts to walk away from their existing revenue stream. It's hard to say what would have happened. It's been an interesting ride and if nothing else, BK was the inspiration for Git and Hg, that's a contribution to the field. And maybe, just maybe, people will look at the SCCS weave and realize that Tichy pulled t…

Thank you for contributing to the development and evangalizing of DVCS, directly (BK) and indirectly (the ideas and inspiration for git, hg).