Re: [PATCH] Remove Bitkeeper documentation from Linux tree

[Anton Altaparmakov]

At 18:58 20/04/02, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>Anton Altaparmakov <[e-mail]> writes:
> > The fact that some developers use bitkeeper has no effect on other
> > developers. Well ok, it means that the bk using developers can work 
> faster but
> > that is not at issue here...
>
>Faster?  BK has no impact on the fundamentals of code development.  Only
>on the problem of merging code.  Only when the bottle neck is merge speed
>does it really come into play.

I would disagree personally. The more I play with the GUI tools provided by 
bitkeeper the more interesting things i discover. For example actually 
SEEING how patches fit together, being able to see what each patch did, 
looking at a file and having each line annotated as to who added it and in 
which patch makes it easier for me to understand how the code I am trying 
to understand has evolved and why certain things are the way they are. But 
that is something very personal to me, others may not find it useful...

>For Linus this is obviously a very important issue.  For some of the
>rest of us it is less so.
>
>For myself I find great benefit in reviewing my own patches, and in
>having other people look at them and review them.  I may be wrong
>but I do not see bitkeeper helping in that regard (except reduce
>the noise of renames).

I really like the way bk citool works because it makes my changelogs a lot 
more useful as I actually see what I have changed when writing them. But 
again, that is just me...

Best regards,

Anton