Of Git and M$

[Michael Gmelin]

> On 15. Jun 2018, at 16:26, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
> 
> A related discussion reminded me of this: how would Microsoft's purchase of GitHub affect future development?  After all, they'll get to call the shots...[*]  The only good thing that came out of M$ is their RTF document format (used natively by the Mac's TextEdit utility, for example), which being plain ASCII can be edited directly if necessary (and I have).
> 
> I've been looking at BitKeeper, for example, the author of which (Larry McEvoy) I happen to know from another mailing list.  Apparently, converting from Git is as simple as: "git fast-export | bk fast-import".
> 
> And no, before some here accuse me of being a shill for BK, I have nothing to do with the product whatsoever, other than as someone looking for an alternative to something now owned by M$ (and I've used just about everything since SCCS).
> 

github != git


> [*]
> Remember their motto: "Embrace, extend, extinguish".
> 
> -- Dave, who has been called paranoid before
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