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Monotone gave most inspiration according to the authors of git and hg. But the author addresses the point anyway: > I’m not recording the first time anyone mad
by tonfa 15y ago
Monotone gave most inspiration according to the authors of git and hg.
But the author addresses the point anyway:
> I’m not recording the first time anyone made the astonishing thing, but the first time it was productised and became popular.
- ajross 15y agoTorvalds was expressly trying to replace bitkeeper when he wrote git. And I'm not sure anything he said about other systems might be considered "inspiration". But that said, git really isn't very similar to bitkeeper except insofar as it enables distributed development. Both model development as a forest of independent developer trees which communicate with each other through merges. But bitkeeper is still a traditional centralized server keeping a bunch of delta'd files.
- tedunangst 15y agobitkeeper only has a central server to the same extent that git does. Somebody on the team picks a repo and says "this one is for serious" and that's it. The decision bitkeeper made to keep files in SCCS format was of course not revolutionary, but tells you quite a bit about the target market (people who had makefiles that relied on implicit commands like get just working). They went to extra effort to make it look just a bunch of delta'd files.
- andrewflnr 15y agoAccording to Wikipedia[1], he liked some of its features, and seemed to float it as a model for a replacement. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotone_(software)#Monotone_as_Git_inspiration http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotone_(software)#Monotone_as...