[darcs-users] [OT] Larry McVoy on the Bitkeeper licence

[Matthias Andree]

"Nimrod A. Abing" <nimrod.abing at gmail.com> writes:

> On another note, here is an excerpt from the email cited at the start
> of this thread:
>
>   "This is a heads up that the BK tree for the kernel is currently at 59,000
>   changesets give or take a few. The BK that you are using uses unsigned
>   shorts for the internal names of each delta which means you folks are
>   about 100 days away from things no longer working."

That also means that BK implementation put up artificial scalability
limits. Not exactly the best advertising for BM engineering.

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Matthias Andree