If you are a commercial user, Open Logging does not apply to you.

Open Logging is an easy way for all developers to follow each other's progress. Because BitKeeper is a truly distributed system, without Open Logging there would be no centralized place to track the progress of a particular project. Open Logging is a requirement for non-paying customers that have multi-user repositories. It is optional for commercial customers.

What is sent?

• The ChangeSet file (comments and contents).
• The messages that annotate modifications of the data (also known as check in comments, ChangeLog entries, and/or log messages)
• All files contained in the top level BitKeeper directory in a BitKeeper repository, in particular the BitKeeper/html directory and the BitKeeper/etc/config and BitKeeper/etc/logging_ok files.

What is not sent?

• Source code or other data managed by BitKeeper.