[GTALUG] Bitkeeper again open source...

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 02:48:53PM -0400, Christopher Browne wrote:
> I guess I left out my favorite would-be best-ever news article title...
> 
> "Arch Duke Ferdinand Found Alive: WWI A Mistake!!!"
> 
> Bitkeeper found alive... Git a misteak ;-)
> 
> It is interesting how much SCM has flowered since; I would not regard it as
> a mistake that people have tried various things, and had some decent
> successes.

Well CVS was awful to use, but it helped a lot of people and was better
than nothing.  At least slightly.  In some cases.

Subversion may very well have been a mistake, but CVS was pretty awful,
and git did not exist yet.

-- 
Len Sorensen