bitkeeper-scm/bitkeeper

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This is the master copy of the BitKeeper source

19 mentions on Hacker News by 18 people: 3 stories, 16 comments · first 2016-05-10 · latest 2025-11-24

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…document to show that the words in Git has indeed to do with a master-slave relationship: https://github.com/bitkeeper-scm/bitkeeper/blob/master/doc/H... But as I said elsewhere, I do not care about that a lot. However, I do think those…
comment by Y-bar · 2025-11-24 · in Git 3.0 will use main as the default branch
…Git, used the terminology "master" and "slaves", so the association is not based on nothing: https://github.com/bitkeeper-scm/bitkeeper/blob/0524ffb3f6f1...
comment by optionalsquid · 2025-11-24 · in Git 3.0 will use main as the default branch
…Git's concept of a master branch was borrowed from BitKeeper which used master/slave terminology. https://github.com/bitkeeper-scm/bitkeeper/blob/master/doc/H...
comment by simonw · 2025-11-24 · in Git 3.0 will use main as the default branch
…on stage BitKeeper itself is open source now and (an old version) of the protocol is documented at https://github.com/bitkeeper-scm/bitkeeper/blob/master/doc/p... .
comment by ob · 2024-07-05 · in A Git story: Not so fun this time
And in light of the history, https://github.com/bitkeeper-scm/bitkeeper is funny on several levels.
comment by yjftsjthsd-h · 2024-07-04 · in A Git story: Not so fun this time
…detect data corruption and recover data from some types of corruption. https://www.bitkeeper.org/ https://github.com/bitkeeper-scm/bitkeeper/blob/master/src/l... https://github.com/bitkeeper-scm/bitkeeper/blob/994fb651a404...
comment by wscott · 2022-04-23 · in Casync – A Content-Addressable Data Synchronization Tool
…That isn't true - master in git comes from master in BitKeeper which did have slave replicas. https://github.com/bitkeeper-scm/bitkeeper/blob/master/doc/H... Not that there is anything wrong with slave in this context.
comment by akvadrako · 2021-08-21 · in Who gets to define what’s ‘racist?’ (2020)
…control? If you meant to say "based on how git works..." then sure, that's a more accurate claim. https://github.com/bitkeeper-scm/bitkeeper/blob/master/doc/H...
comment by tchaffee · 2020-06-15 · in GitHub abandons 'master' and 'slave' terms to avoid row
Doesn't it come from Bitkeeper? See https://github.com/bitkeeper-scm/bitkeeper/blob/master/doc/H... for master/slave terminology.
comment by bretthopper · 2020-06-15 · in GitHub renaming default branch to “main”
…Git was made to replace bitkeeper which had (has?) the concepts of master/slave repositories: https://github.com/bitkeeper-scm/bitkeeper/blob/master/doc/H... https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2019-May/... Edit: to those…
comment by pbz · 2020-06-15 · in GitHub to Remove 'Master' Terminology
Nope, it's mentioned right here: https://github.com/bitkeeper-scm/bitkeeper/blob/master/doc/H...
comment by Traster · 2020-06-13 · in GitHub is working on renaming default branch from “master”
…used and the one that inspired git. Bitkeeper used a master/slave architecture that git dropped. https://github.com/bitkeeper-scm/bitkeeper/blob/master/doc/H...
comment by _never_k · 2020-06-12 · in GitHub is working on renaming default branch from “master”
Apparently git did inherit master from bitkeeper which had master and slave (replica) repositories. https://github.com/bitkeeper-scm/bitkeeper/blob/master/doc/H...
comment by crucialfelix · 2020-06-12 · in GitHub is working on renaming default branch from “master”
…plantation". Evidently, this is a relic from bitkeeper which uses the "master/slave" terminology. https://github.com/bitkeeper-scm/bitkeeper/blob/master/doc/H... https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2019-May/...
comment by Foxboron · 2020-06-12 · in GitHub is working on renaming default branch from “master”
…is technically the second changeset, it seems, but I posted this one since the first is just blank: https://github.com/bitkeeper-scm/bitkeeper/commit/a082174a1b...
comment by captn3m0 · 2016-05-10 · in First BitKeeper commit
There is an official mirror on GitHub: https://github.com/bitkeeper-scm/bitkeeper
comment by okket · 2016-05-10 · in Show HN: BitKeeper – Enterprise-ready version control, now open-source