From: Zhi Li <lizhi1215@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:39:05 GMT
Subject: Re: early days before git's invention
Message-ID: <2986b3940911081939s1bc78ab0m8e9d8f040af87a70@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <m3ws21rvrd.fsf@localhost.localdomain>

Thank you all for the information!

Zhi

On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 9:29 PM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Zhi Li <lizhi1215@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I have a question maybe not suitable to be put on this list. I'm just
> > curious on git and Linux history. As what was said on wiki, Linux
> > kernel was maintained by BitKeeper, then for some reason, BitKeeper
> > can not be used, so git was invented. My question is what was used
> > before BitKeeper, CVS? I don't think so. Then, just using file to
> > manage?
>
> For why BitKeeper could not be used, see:
>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_(software)#Early_history
>  http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitHistory
>  http://kerneltrap.org/node/4982
>  http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/article/129776/after_controversy_torvalds_begins_work_git?fp=16&fpid=0
>
>  http://better-scm.berlios.de/bk/demise-of-gratis-bitkeeper.html
>  http://better-scm.berlios.de/bk/what-bitmover-got-wrong.html
>  http://better-scm.berlios.de/bk/the-bitkeeper-ghost.html
>
> Before BitKeeper Linux used tarballs (for releases) plus patches (for
> changes); patches were send by email (on LKML).  Some maintainers used
> tools like Quilt (or custom scripts) for patch management.
>
>
> P.S. FreeBSD (IIRC) used / uses CVS for version control, but it has
> quite different development model than Linux.
>
> --
> Jakub Narebski
> Poland
>