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BitKeeper overview

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• Distributed source management

  • supports many repositories with local history

  • ability to keep all repositories in sync

• Formal changesets

  • aka patchfiles plus extra revision control information

• Renames and symbolic links

  • Logged just like contents

• Centralized change logs

  • Browse the changes on openlogging.org

• Provides lines of development (sort of like named branches)

  • Each kernel version is an LOD

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17 May 1999

lm@bitmover.com