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Matt's point is that they've chosen a system that makes it really hard to get that last 10%. "We have tried to draw spirals using cartesian coordinates, what w
by ob 15y ago
Matt's point is that they've chosen a system that makes it really hard to get that last 10%.
"We have tried to draw spirals using cartesian coordinates, what we have gets us 90% there, but there are infinities and edge cases involved in getting a perfect spiral. The equations describing them would get so complicated it's just not worth it."
What we have in BitKeeper is the equivalent of polar coordinates... it makes drawing spirals much, much easier ;)
- tonfa 15y agoDo you have a page describing how that would differ? The bk website seems awfully outdated: there's no mention of the existence of other DVCS, there's a quote from MySQL being happy with bk -- they switched to bazaar two years ago --, etc.. I would be nice if you could give some examples where bk gets the merge right while git doesn't.
- ob 15y agoYeah, the website is awfully outdated and information free. BitMover is working on it. One example that bk gets right and git doesn't is precisely the one explained in the article.
- etherealG 15y agoI'd appreciate an explanation of your approach too, it would be great to know how we could "adjust our coordinates" to take care of this issue without loosing speed, but gaining accuracy. I suspect what you'll find is changing the base in this way, while fixing this problem would introduce other problems that occur much more regularly, but I hope I'm wrong.