From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 10:36:37 -0400 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 Sources Repository Topicbox-Message-UUID: 055dfaca-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > Yet: is there a source control system behind it? > Would it be possible to check out directly from there? there is nothing most folks would recognize as a distributed revision control system. the repo is sources itself. history is through history(1). you can "check out" code with cp(1), tar(1), mkfs(8); you can keep up with the repo with replica(1). patches are submitted via patch(1). > If there is none, could it be that this contributes to the lack of > popularity and to the fragmentation of Plan9 (9front, 9atom, 9legacy, > PlanB, other plans...)? i would think the "lack of popularity" can be most directly attributed to the closed license in the early 90s, when there was an unfilled niche, and linux was seriously lacking. i starting doing something slightly different when il was pulled from the distribution while i was in no position to stop using it. it had nothing to do with source control. - erik