brainstorms

Tuesday January 24, 2006

on keeping bits [or not]

first there was a freebsd 6.0 upgrade in my lab. an extremely rare event: i managed to wipe out my freebsd /usr/local, including bitkeeper distro and binaries.

next there was not keeping bits: over a year ago, i had moved most [not all] of my private projects to bitkeeper. after the wipeout, i realized that i had not used bitkeeper for over a year. not once. [so much for any project work at home...]

since i cannot justify owning a bk license right now [also free from its non-compete clause] it is time to move on. i may re-visit graydon's monotone. i know i will spend some time with svn. [sort of like having to white-knuckle through rush-hour traffic in toronto. life gets shorter as a result.] i want to take a closer look at tom [lord]'s handiwork to see if it has any signs of recovering from its spiraling, stomach churning idiosynchronicity. [maybe its derivatives are easier on the eyes and mind] elsewhere, svk and mercurial keep coming up in good conversation...

that reminds me: i need to convert some of my old bk repositories to the lowest common version control, or abandon them. sigh.

[rick moen's scm/vcs list]