Of Git and M$

[Chris H]

On Sat, 16 Jun 2018 00:26:36 +1000 (EST) "Dave Horsfall" <dave at horsfall.org> said

> 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).
Thanks, Dave. I had intended to bring up similar dialog, when I discovered the
announcement. Not a big loss to me, as I've always been more of a GitLab fan.
But hadn't looked at BitKeeper. Thanks for the reference!
--Chris
> 
> [*]
> Remember their motto: "Embrace, extend, extinguish".
> 
> -- Dave, who has been called paranoid before
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