[bind10-dev] git or hg

[Jelte Jansen]

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On 05/06/2010 11:41 PM, Francis Dupont wrote:
>>> As far as I know git is not (no longer in fact) open source.
> 
> => perhaps it is a confusion with bitkeeper which was used for Linux
> sources. According to my Gentoo packages, the git server is open source

yup, iirc, Linux used to use Bitkeeper even though it wasn't free
software, and that backfired when they stopped allowing free-of-charge
use of it. That prompted the creation of git, which is completely free.
There's quite an interesting lesson in that story btw :)

> (in http://www.git-scm.com/) and mercurial too (in
> http://mercurial.selenic.com/). BTW there is Bazaar too, it seems
> each guy who has a strong opinion wrote his own tool (:-) (*).
> 

another lesson in there, this time on the culture behind open source :)

> 
> PS: (*) it is *not* a call to write another one!

lol, i would certainly not hope so.

I agree with Michaels proposal. I have a small personal unfounded
preference for git, but no real arguments for or against either; I
haven't used either of them.

Jelte
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