Linus Torvalds 在拋棄 BitKeeper 後改用 Git 這套 GPL 的版本控制系統:Torvalds unveils new Linux control system。
這套版本控制系統與 BitKeeper 並不相容,但是他分散儲存的觀念是一樣的,所以 Linux Torvalds 選 Git。
不過看起來似乎還有一些問題?像是:
Among the differences: Git can’t rename a file; users must instead delete one and recreate it elsewhere with the new name, McVoy said. And it doesn’t handle space efficiently; a tiny one-character change to a 1MB file in Git will result in a 2MB file, whereas BitKeeper’s file will grow only by one byte.
這聽起來似乎不是很好… 不過不管如何,至少是 Open Source License。