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At the time I think CVS was the proposed system. Linus said he preferred patches. I'm not sure he was wrong. AFAIK, bitkeeper was designed (not sure to what
by nas 17y ago
At the time I think CVS was the proposed system. Linus said he preferred patches. I'm not sure he was wrong. AFAIK, bitkeeper was designed (not sure to what extent) when Larry got together with Linus and Linus explained how he wanted it to work.
- ob 17y agoI've heard it told the other way around. That Larry had worked on Teamware at Sun and he showed Linus how distributed SCM worked. Linus said "if you build that, I will use it" and Larry built it.