[ale] Linux Kernel Change Control + CVS

[ale at FultonGreen.com (Fulton Green)]

I guess you know by now it's BitKeeper. ;-)

Linus was interviewed recently about his objections to CVS, and it was
somewhere along the lines of CVS not having certain features that were
already present in BitKeeper. There is a project called Subversion
( http://Subversion.Tigris.org/ ) that, when complete, would potentially be
the revision system that Linus would want to use.

On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 09:57:32AM -0500, Mike Millson wrote:
> I read where some time ago Linus stopped using CVS for Linux kernel
> development and started using a commercial version control system. Does
> anyone know the name of the software? If I remember correctly, one of the
> reasons Linus did this was because this other software does not store code
> in a central repository but distributes it amongst users. Why is CVS not
> good for Linux development? Can anyone elaborate on Linus' point? What's so
> bad about a central repository and CVS?

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