Fredrik Lundh <fredrik at pythonware.com> writes:
> > Sure. But what's the similarity to the fiasco part of the BitKeeper fiasco?
>> depends on what you consider being the cause of that fiasco. I'm not
> sure it was quite as simple as people are trying to make it sound...
I remember there being some urgency to move away from BitKeeper
because some counter (like a 16-bit file version number that got
incremented on every check-in of the file, or something like that) was
about to overflow, and only the non-free version allocated more bits
for the counter. That was why Git had to be thrown together in just a
few weeks.
