[LLVMdev] moving to svn?

[Ted Kremenek]

On Nov 28, 2006, at 11:06 AM, Bill Wendling wrote:

> (Has anyone
> mentioned Bitkeeper yet? :-)

I'm not certain if this was a serious suggestion.  Probably not.   
I'll actually comment on this one because we actually do use  
BitKeeper in my research group.

It's a great tool, but it is not free anymore for open-source  
projects.  Branching and merging is a breeze in BitKeeper, has atomic  
commits, changesets, is completely designed for distributed  
development (a developer has complete access to all version control  
information on their local checkout of the repository without being  
connected to the Internet), and so on.

It also costs a lot, probably more than any version control software  
out there.  Although I cannot disclose how much we pay for it (and we  
have an academic license), if you came up with a figure in your head  
and multiplied it by two that would probably be far less than how  
much it costs to pay for a 1 year lease of BitKeeper.  That said, it  
is a great tool.