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> In case you didn't notice, that's not been true for rather a while.
Sure, but whoever got hooked on bk can't easily switch to something else now,
can they?
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> And the assertion that all linux fans were into bitkeeper was wrong
> too: it clearly divided the community.
Probably. I didn't make this assertion. I was talking about people I actually
know. Of course a connection to Linux is not a connection to a novel distributed
biological organism with a synchronized opinion on every subject.
> Linus wrote something better than bitkeeper in a few weeks anyway.
Are you sure it's better? AFAIK git doesn't even keep diffs but the whole pile
of versions. But hey - Linux has a tradition of wasting your disk space. For
instance, /etc/termcap (used to tell vi how xterm works) is 900K big. It's a
good thing those disks keep growing.
{emacs,vi}+gdb is not Visual C++ (I mean the IDE with decent definition look-up
and interactive debugging, not the hateful builder). It's not that easy to write
something better than (even a hateful) commercial product into which a shitload
of man years were invested.
There's stuff above here
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