Clemens Schwaighofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 02/15/2005 09:19 PM, kernel wrote: >> With all of the complaining about BK you'd think there'd be an equal >> alternative. > > there is no need for that. There is already one. Subversion is a more > than mature VCS. Apache group is switching to it, gcc people are > strongly thinking about it, and those two are _huge_ projects with tons > of developers, patches, trunks, etc.
Subversion and BK are quite different. The first one is snapshot oriented and the latter is changeset oriented (I find this a more powerful concept). Subversion is not distributed (you have some helper scripts but I don't know how stable they are), which is somehow mandatory for the way Linux is developed. Subversion also lacks any smart merging capabilities (it doesn't even remember what was merged). GNU Arch is probably as close as you can get regarding features and performance (I can't compare the two since I've never used BK). Catalin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
