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See the other comment with a link to lobste.rs, but I'm afraid this entire project exists to reimplement git as a BSD-licensed tool. My eyes were rolling prett
by saxonww 7y ago
See the other comment with a link to lobste.rs, but I'm afraid this entire project exists to reimplement git as a BSD-licensed tool.
My eyes were rolling pretty hard until I remembered that git was basically born out of a license disagreement with BitKeeper. Kudos to the OpenBSD folks (and/or this developer) for sticking to their principles.
- compsciphd 7y agothe bitkeeper license disagreement impacted how the tool was used. Git's license really only impacts how its developed.
- enneff 7y agoI don’t think that’s the goal. I think it’s more about a clear user experience for their developers, who used CVS for a very long time. While CVS is more rigid and limited than git, it has some benefits too. I see this tool, got, as marrying the benefits of both tools.
- MuffinFlavored 7y agoWhat are some of those benefits?
- enneff 7y agoUnambiguous workflow, checkouts of only part of the tree, checkouts of specific files that are being worked on, and probably more that I can’t remember now since it’s been 20 years since I used CVS.