Specific BitKeeper strengths
     

    




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Reproducibility


    

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Rollbacks of everything works (names, contents, permissions...)


    

    

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Work flow


    

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Peer to peer architecture means any work flow may be modeled


      

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Trivial to emulate Rational Unified Change Management


      

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Trivial to work around it if needed


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Example of testing with work at a different state than your own


      

    

    

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Merge technology


    

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Best in class in graphical and text based merge tools


    

    

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Debugging / archeology


    

    • 
Go from any line of code to the changeset which added that line


      

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See progressions of the code easily


      

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Reproduce the entire tree as of any changeset trivially


    

    

  • 
Geographically distributed development


    

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All sites are "the master", no second class users


      

    • 
Everyone gets best case performance


      

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Local installations benefit through less network utilization


    

    

  • 
Responsive vendor


    

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BitKeeper is a customer driven product


      

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We'll work with you to understand your processes and needs


      

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We'll enhance the product, if necessary, to satisfy your needs


      

    • 
Extremely responsive and knowledgeable support staff


      

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Some customers view this as the best thing about BitKeeper



   




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Slide 35 of 37



2 Sep 2003 lm@bitmover.com