Proprietary software tool for distributed revision control of computer source code
BitKeeper
Original author(s)
BitMover Inc.
Initial release
May 4, 2000; 24 years ago (2000-05-04)
Final release
7.3.3
/ December 29, 2018; 5 years ago (2018-12-29)[1]
Repository
github.com/bitkeeper-scm/bitkeeper
Written in
C
Operating system
AIX, FreeBSD, HP-UX, IRIX, Linux, Mac OS X, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, Windows
Type
Distributed revision control
License
2016: Apache-2.0[a] 2000: Proprietary[b]
Website
www.bitkeeper.org
BitKeeper is a discontinued software tool for distributed revision control of computer source code. Originally developed as proprietary software by BitMover Inc., a privately held company based in Los Gatos, California,[2] it was released as open-source software under the Apache-2.0 license on 9 May 2016.[3] BitKeeper is no longer being developed.[4][5]
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^"Company information". BitMover. Archived from the original on 2016-08-01. Retrieved 2016-07-13.
^"BitKeeper". Archived from the original on 2016-05-10. Retrieved 2016-05-10.
^"BitKeeper community forum". BitMover. Retrieved 2020-05-06.
^"Contributors to bitkeeper". GitHub. Retrieved 2021-04-30.
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branches at no extra costs. Source Code Control System Sun WorkShop TeamWare BitKeeper Bazaar intended to use interleaved deltas in 2006, but it was ditched...
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