Re:Continuous Unix commit history from 1970 until today
by self_awareness on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @09:49AM
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The BitKeeper reverse engineering is a fun story to read: https://lwn.net/Articles/132938/ (and short!)
Re:Continuous Unix commit history from 1970 until today
by black-tea on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @09:54AM
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The funny thing is the "reverse engineering" involved telnetting into the server and typing "help".
Re:Continuous Unix commit history from 1970 until today
by d4rti on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @11:39AM
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And if I recall correctly it sent back SCCS-style data
Re:Continuous Unix commit history from 1970 until today
by black-tea on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @09:53AM
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They did use a system---tarballs and patches---but it was just a socially constructed system rather than rigorously enforced using software. Linus has often said he would have rather gone back to that system rather than use CVS or SVN.
Re:Continuous Unix commit history from 1970 until today
by cryptonector on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @12:53PM
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Fortunately instead he created Git. I'm a fan of Git, though I'm aware many aren't.
No - BitKeeper revoked the free license because some guy (unrelated to Linux) wrote a client that reverse engineered more features than BitKeeper liked.
And Linux actually used BitKeeper only between 2002 and 2005; prior to that time, it did not use a source control system at all.