On 6 Feb 2002, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:
>
> Well, it seems that The Great Kernel CVS Mutiny led Linus to
> BitKeeper...
>
> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/02/06/1341250&mode=thread
>
I should add that by "CVS" I meant any decent source control system and
BitKeepter seems to fit this description. This is definitely good news. I
don't know what role my post played in Linus' decision, though.
The point of the mutiny was that people should have abandoned the original
way of maintaining the patches, regardless of Linus' approval. But now
that he uses it himself, there isn't much point in it. It's good to know
Linus is not as senseless and stubborn as I believed he was, originally.
I discovered other things I don't like about the way the kernel was
maintained since the original mutiny call, but they are relatively minor
in comparison to using a source control system.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
There is no IGLU Cabal! They had to maintain a codebase the size of the
Linux kernel, and could not use a source control because the project
leader was religiously opposed to it. This caused disorder and confusion,
and nobody thought of starting "The Great IGLU Cabal CVS Mutiny".
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