Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by mips_avatar on Sunday June 03, 2018 @06:35PM (#17222760)

I think that the biggest loser is going to be IBM clearcase. Especially in government/defense work the developers want to use git, but can’t get it because of lack of security reviews. I can guarantee you that Microsoft sales people are already calling every software group manager at all the defense contractors.

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by naikrovek on Sunday June 03, 2018 @10:49PM (#17224180)

Well, clearcase is a horrible monster and it would benefit just about everyone on Earth if it dies.

How many drivers on the road would be less likely to cut someone off or road rage if they didn't have to deal with ClearCase again? I'm sure that number is greater than zero.

I'm only being partially facetious. ClearCase truly is the worst.

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by mips_avatar on Sunday June 03, 2018 @11:33PM (#17224377)

I was only an intern when I worked on clearcase so I don’t have a lot of personal experience. But the level of hatred my colleagues showed towards it left an impression.

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by arashdelijani on Sunday June 03, 2018 @10:29PM (#17224084)

Can you elaborate on this? Why does using git preclude security reviews?

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by mips_avatar on Sunday June 03, 2018 @11:28PM (#17224364)

Any software precludes security reviews in defense work. My group wanted mediawiki to run an internal wiki behind the firewall and it took 18 months to pass and my boss had about a dozen meetings and countless emails. There are cases where a developer had to write code in word because he couldn’t get a text editor (allegedly I didn’t actually witness it). When your network is constantly under state sponsored attack these precautions aren’t pointless. But it takes a company like Microsoft or IBM to be able to work with security reviews and get them through quickly.

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by gmueckl on Sunday June 03, 2018 @10:43PM (#17224147)

Clearcase is a much more advanced tool than git. It is designed to do radically different things from the mere patch relationship management that git performs in its ultra glorified ways.

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by rattray on Monday June 04, 2018 @10:33AM (#17228082)

What are the best capabilities of ClearCase?

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by gmueckl on Monday June 04, 2018 @03:51PM (#17231598)

The most interesting to me specifically is the ability to define working copies through filter scripts. As far as I understand it, this is an alternative to branching. You can mix and match different components/alternative modules (e.g. different HALs or device drivers for different HW platforms) into sets of products without running afoul of the typical limitations of branches. However, Clearcase is just too expensive for us to even try it out seriously.

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