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Linus, in my kitchen, surrounded by impressed women who were asking how he lost weight. He had just answered the question "did you give up drinking" with a "h

Linus, in my kitchen, surrounded by impressed women who were asking how he lost weight. He had just answered the question "did you give up drinking" with a "hell, no!" http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/photos/2007/05/276.html http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/photos/2007/05/276.html ZFS guys (Brian, Jeff and Bill) at the same party (I thought I had one with Linus and them, they were all at the same table talking file systems): http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/photos/2007/05/257.html http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/photos/2007/05/257.html Funny story, I invited Linus to the pig roast and he didn't RSVP so there wasn't anywhere for him to sleep. I ended up sticking him and his daughter in a VW popup van :) You can kindly wander off now, random internet dude. Especially since the guy who wrote Git agrees that it is lossy, so take your FUZZY and go home.

kadenshep 9y ago
Still waiting on the "demonstrable" facts. Uh, you are completely misunderstanding why it was a silly anecdote Mr. Dead Project maintainer. It's based on your personal recollection of events. Him physically being somewhere doesn't make what you said true -- especially since it doesn't TECHNICALLY make sense. Please explain to me, in technical detail how git is "lossy." I won't hold my breath. EDIT: Your profile indicates that you are the CEO of the company that makes bitkeeper. You are referencing a conversation, that if I'm reading right, apparently happened around 2007. You've made an assertion that this is what Linus said (despite it not technically making any sense, so I have some serious doubts about that). You have elsewhere around the thread also chosen to paint BitKeeper's "unadoption" as a simple matter of licensing issues, despite textual evidence in the Linux mailing list archives CONSISTENTLY pinpointing technical problems that the team had with BitKeeper and Linus himself in one thread specifically stating he wanted Git to be nothing like BK. You are ignoring that in your magical BK timeline, you had TWO separate projects (Git and Mercurial) both pop up at basically the same time, adopt literally nothing from BitKeeper, move the Linux project off BK and onto Git, and then proceeded to completely dominate your software product for technical reasons (and not simple licensing issues, people pay for SCM's even now) to the point where BK is now open source. Basically, you seem like you're being pretty fucking dishonest and disingenuous right now and are rather salty the whole world doesn't agree that your SCM is Totally Sane (TM).

kadenshep 9y ago

Still waiting on the "demonstrable" facts. Uh, you are completely misunderstanding why it was a silly anecdote Mr. Dead Project maintainer. It's based on your personal recollection of events. Him physically being somewhere doesn't make what you said true -- especially since it doesn't TECHNICALLY make sense. Please explain to me, in technical detail how git is "lossy." I won't hold my breath. EDIT: Your profile indicates that you are the CEO of the company that makes bitkeeper. You are referencing a conversation, that if I'm reading right, apparently happened around 2007. You've made an assertion that this is what Linus said (despite it not technically making any sense, so I have some serious doubts about that). You have elsewhere around the thread also chosen to paint BitKeeper's "unadoption" as a simple matter of licensing issues, despite textual evidence in the Linux mailing list archives CONSISTENTLY pinpointing technical problems that the team had with BitKeeper and Linus himself in one thread specifically stating he wanted Git to be nothing like BK. You are ignoring that in your magical BK timeline, you had TWO separate projects (Git and Mercurial) both pop up at basically the same time, adopt literally nothing from BitKeeper, move the Linux project off BK and onto Git, and then proceeded to completely dominate your software product for technical reasons (and not simple licensing issues, people pay for SCM's even now) to the point where BK is now open source. Basically, you seem like you're being pretty fucking dishonest and disingenuous right now and are rather salty the whole world doesn't agree that your SCM is Totally Sane (TM).