source mgt. requirements solicitation

[Zack Weinberg]

Neil Booth <neil@daikokuya.co.uk> writes:

> Linus Torvalds wrote:-
>
>> The part that you're missing, simply because you've probably used CVS
>> for too long, is the _distributed_ nature of Bitkeeper, and of Linux
>> development.  Repeat after me: "There is no single tree".  Everything is
>> distributed. 
>
> Uh, careful, Zack wrote parts of Bitkeeper, including designing the network
> protocols IIRC.

It is my understanding that the network protocol I designed is no
longer in use, and good riddance, it was my first try at such things
and I didn't know what I was doing.

But yes, I worked on Bitkeeper for about six months in 2000, so I do
know what its architecture is like.

zw