BitKeeper's main author Larry McVoy claims his company made the move to kill off the free tool as a direct response to Samba developer Tridgell's decision to reverse-engineering Bitkeeper.

To cheers from the 500-strong audience, Tridgell demonstrated how information available from BitKeeper's own online help made gaining access to that information a trivial task. "We have now, in a ...

Nonetheless, Torvalds felt BitKeeper was the best tool for the job, so he brushed these complaints aside. Enter Andrew Tridgell, uber-hacker and Samba creator.

The new effort, called “git,” was started last week after a licensing dispute forced Torvalds to abandon the proprietary BitKeeper software he had been using to manage Linux kernel development ...

Torvalds' Git project, in contrast, makes no attempt to be compatible with BitKeeper, he and McVoy said in interviews Wednesday. That means more difficulties for those converting to the new system ...

Linux creator Linus Torvalds, who had been using BitKeeper for almost three years, stopped using the software then and has now developed a system called git which is used to manage kernel development.

Security features of the source-code repository, known as BitKeeper, detected the illicit change within 24 hours, and the public database was shut down, a key developer said Thursday.

A look at Linux kernel developers' various revision control solutions through the years, Linus Torvalds' decision to use BitKeeper and the controversy that followed, and how Git came to be created.

The BitKeeper software became well-known after Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux kernel, decided to use it for kernel code management in 2002.

At that time McVoy had two versions of BitKeeper – a commercial version and a non-commercial one, the latter being free for use by anyone who was not running a business. The only condition for ...

Though BitKeeper is not an "open source" program--that is, users are not able to view and modify its source code--McVoy let Linux developers (and other open source programmers) use BitKeeper for ...

Torvalds seemed aware that his decision to drop BitKeeper would also be controversial. When asked why he called the new software, “git,” British slang meaning “a rotten person,” he said.