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luckydude | 5 years ago

I've built two commercially successful systems, NSElite that was used to develop the Solaris kernel and was productized as Avocet/CodeManager/TeamWare (don't blame me, I didn't name it), and BitKeeper which was, at one point, in use on every continent other than the Arctic. If you are running on a 5 year old Intel CPU, that was developed using BitKeeper.

The comment that RCS scales for binaries couldn't be more wrong, RCS hates binaries with a passion.

The fact that you didn't address any of the points I raised says you either don't understand what a weave file format is, or, you do, you recognize it is a much better format but don't want to talk about that.

This part of this thread reminds of something Ron Minnich once said: "Don't worry about people stealing your ideas, you are going to have to cram them down their throats".

I'll drop it, we can revisit when I write up how weaves work. I don't think any objective person would argue that a patch based system is as good, let alone better.

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pmeunier|5 years ago

I came back here to say:

> I've built two commercially successful systems,

This is a great achievements, congrats on that!

All I was saying in my previous comment was, these very cool achievements don't prevent you from calling all other people "idiotic", and from saying "they don't have a clue" without even looking at their designs, or even thinking that they might have had ideas different from yours.

Also, calling Git "patch-based" is quite wrong, but my point wasn't technical.

pmeunier|5 years ago

> The comment that RCS scales for binaries couldn't be more wrong, RCS hates binaries with a passion.

That isn't what I meant, I was actually talking about Perforce. RCS doesn't even handle multiple files.

neolog|5 years ago

Tbh I think it's not likely to be a productive conversation if unless insinuations of bias and ignorance can be eliminated.

luckydude|5 years ago

I think the most productive thing I could do is write up how the weave works. People don't seem to understand that, if they did, nobody would be talking about patches.

I'm sorry if I pissed off the other guy, but I'm retired, and I'm tired, and I have no interest in arguing with people who don't get it. But it's on me to provide the info that lets them get it. I'll do that and what people do with it is up to them.